...our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing [relations of ideas]. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to...

...same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to...

...same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to...

...cannot deny that 2+2=4 without being involved in contradiction: the opposite is inconceivable. But 'the contrary of every matter of fact is still possible,...more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise.'1 Hume does not mean that it is untrue to say that the sun will rise tomorrow: he means that...

...same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to...

...next time, or for the indefinite future. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible: .... That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more 173 contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to...

...same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to...

...same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to...

...faciliry and distinctness, äs if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-momtv is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, thereforc, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false,...

...superior.' Alasdair Maclntyre, Dependent Rational Animals (London: Duckworth, 1999), pp. 1-2 and 7. 50 ' That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more a contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise.' David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding...