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>>17239626
>Corellation does not equal causation!
nothing does, so this is true

David Hume said that whenever he was plagued by existential woes or philosophical worries, he would just go get drunk with his m8 and forget about it all.

How did philosophers who weren't cringe normalfags like Hume deal with that kind of stuff?

you called?

>you can't prove that the hammer you just slammed on your finger is the cause of the effect of pain because you can't observe causality itself :^)
>you can't KNOW if the sun is going to come up tomorrow, you can only say it's probable ^_^
this right here. this is why no one takes philosophy seriously anymore.

is it because the anglos got involved or just the institution becoming outdated in the wake of the Scientific Revolution?

How do i summon a Hume tulpa?

>>12909386
That's a whole lot of conceptual metaphysical speculation, friend.

>>12680177
>Because the philosophers from the 17th-19th centuries didn't have the same science we have now.

Most ignorant/brainlet reply of the thread. Read pic related NOW.

Dave... Easy on the pie

>>12047413
chillin with my boy david