Hume believes that we cannot conclude that similar causes from unrelated effect. Which is lead to thinking that Hume believes that causes and effect has to be analogous to each other. In his other book, Causation, Hume states that humans cannot possibly place a cause and a random effect in any fashion without experience. Hume stated from Causation, “Were a man, such as Adam, created in the full vigor of understanding, without experience, he would never be able to infer motion in the second ball from the motion and impulse of the first” (Hume, C., 178). It seems like in Analogy and the Argument from Design, that Cleanthes, Demea, and Philo is connecting the universe with other items and ideas, but they could not possibly know for sure because they never experience it. They would compare the universe with a machine (Hume. A.A., 214). It is the same when people try to assume that the universe exists through self-creation, or assume that the universe exists because of an intelligent creator. The cosmological argument is a valid argument, whereas the argument through analogy tends to make it a weaker
Hume believes that we cannot conclude that similar causes from unrelated effect. Which is lead to thinking that Hume believes that causes and effect has to be analogous to each other. In his other book, Causation, Hume states that humans cannot possibly place a cause and a random effect in any fashion without experience. Hume stated from Causation, “Were a man, such as Adam, created in the full vigor of understanding, without experience, he would never be able to infer motion in the second ball from the motion and impulse of the first” (Hume, C., 178). It seems like in Analogy and the Argument from Design, that Cleanthes, Demea, and Philo is connecting the universe with other items and ideas, but they could not possibly know for sure because they never experience it. They would compare the universe with a machine (Hume. A.A., 214). It is the same when people try to assume that the universe exists through self-creation, or assume that the universe exists because of an intelligent creator. The cosmological argument is a valid argument, whereas the argument through analogy tends to make it a weaker