veals that
all this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience (19).
To practice the inductive method, two connected events have to occur. First, there has to be a cause-and-effect process occurring in the world of human experience, and, second, human beings have to be able to perceive, explain, prove and understand that process.
To Hume and his skeptical philosophy, there may be a cause-and-effect process, but human beings are incapable of proving that it exists, and they are therefore incapable of truly knowing very much about reality. Simply because it appears that one event is caused by
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