David Hume Empiricism

In the book an Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume, he argues that empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience. Immanuel Kant on the other hand exclaims that knowledge is innate. Although Hume puts up some good arguments, the following paper will discuss a couple holes in his a posteriori theory which causes it to become unstable and ultimately unreliable.
Hume takes the traditional empiricist thought in saying that humans are born a blank slate with which all knowledge is gathered through experience. He delves further into the topic though, arguing things such as causation, substance, and self are assumptions we draw rather than being knowledge we are born with.
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The first being in relation to his collection of ideas. If we step back to the example with the number five. Hume can argue that the only reason we know about the number five is from a relation of ideas. We know that two plus three equals five, therefore we have come to the discovery of the number five, which would not have been possible had we not known the previous statement. Hume also has a sound argument in his cause and effect relationship stating that an a priori attempt to suggest the effect from the cause means that the cause is being imagined and is inconsistent. Although his arguments sound firm, more examples from Kant can be introduced. If a fat man listens to the radio, a human can infer from the term fat man that he is indeed male and is indeed larger than average. Yet, you cannot assume he is listening to the radio, therefore it is false, which is not true because it was just exclaimed that he was in fact listening to the radio. The earlier example of hunger disproves the statement that the cause of the relationship is imaginary because a feeling such as hunger is an innate concept. In conclusion, although Hume provides supporting evidence to his claims there are a few holes in his a posteriori theory which causes it to become unstable and ultimately unreliable. Leading the idea of rationalism to be a more reasonable line of