2020-11-01
- Ran my first half-marathon!
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- Two types of knowledge proposed by David Hume
- Relations of ideas
- A proposition expresses a relation of ideas if its denial is impossible (self-contradictory)
- Have to be true
- Necessary truths
- Verified through deductive reasoning
- E.g. All bachelors are male, geometry, algebra
- Matters of fact
- A proposition expresses a matter of fact if both it and its denial are possible (not self-contradictory)
- Verified through experience
- E.g. The Sun will rise tomorrow