David Hume Section 7 Summary

In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Section VI and VII, David Hume concludes that there is nothing to our belief of causation with the exception of constant conjunction, and no means by which we can analyze into it further. I agree with Hume because I too concur that we are incapable of justifying the causal connection with effect in which everything that happens happens respectively with some type of necessity or law. Although, those necessities or laws are beyond the bounds of our understanding/beliefs. In section VI, Of Probability, Hume says that there is no such thing as chance in the world and that it is our ignorance towards the real causes of events that leads us to believe in chance. He continues to say that our beliefs are more engraved upon

In section VII, Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion, Hume resolves that there is no such thing as an impression, internal(introspective) or eternal(sensory), that correlates with “force”. “power”, “energy”, and “necessary connection.” Hume then argues that there is no such impression capable enough to give us knowledge of necessary connection, where “necessary connection” is the power or force that inevitably ties one idea to another. Hume discusses how we are not capable of observing the execution of causation as well as the mind being incapable of understanding the process of cause and effect. He rejects the idea that impulses of the will may be inferred between the connection of actions produced by some sense of power of the will. Hume then continues on to examine the interaction between two bodies, bounded by the mind and body as well as mind to mind and disputes that human nature does not grasp any power of necessary connection. When Hume examine mind-body interactions he ultimately concludes that although our mind might will our arms to move, that will produces a chain of effects in which will takes place. Likewise,