/lit/ - Literature

>>7451059
I've never read it so I can't speak of it

>>7451065
All knowledge is derived from the senses.

>>7451067
Currently in my stomach, I've been living off of coffee, rice and cigarettes for a while and, while great on the wallet and sufficient for academic work, it does leave me wanting.

>>7451070
I'm not, neither is Hume. That honour falls upon Al-Ghazali.

I'm not explicitly involved in the current academic landscape of ethics or political philosophy and only tangentially involved in the other two, I wouldn't take anything I say with regards to these fields to be too authoritative.

>>7451074
I don't, it's simply the most probable thesis which is all we can really reach. Certainty is a false idea.

>>7451077
Causality can't be derived from experience because causality is a false idea. I've experience events which have been followed by other events within a close enough spatio-temporal frame of reference enough times that I can assume with some probability what will happen. There is no causality, merely events that follow from other events with the same regularity that the earth revolves around the sun. Causality can be reduced to the movements of natural bodies.