Comments for David Hume: Anti-Christian at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 04:18:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/david-hume-anti-christian.html#comment-11447 Hume’s argument that we do not observe causes is quite right, if, like him, we import the notion of necessity into our idea of cause. But, of course we need do no such thing. To take Miss Anscombe’s example, “As surely as we learned to call people by name or to report from seeing it that the cat was on the table, we also learned to report from having observed it that someone drank up the milk or that the dog made a funny noise or that things were cut or broken by whatever we saw cut or break them.” - Michael Paterson-Seymour Thu, 17 May 2012 09:15:36 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/david-hume-anti-christian.html#comment-11431 Fascinating! Very important article. Thank you! - Dan Deeny Wed, 16 May 2012 05:50:57 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/david-hume-anti-christian.html#comment-11429 Hume was in himself an example of what Belloc and Chesterton noted, that enemies of the Church typically forgot on Tuesday what they had argued on Monday, charging the Church first with being warlike, for example, and then with being pacifist, or first with being Puritanical (!), and then with being carnal, and so forth. When he was writing about miracles, Hume forgot that he had already ruled out the possibility of ever affirming that a certain state of affairs must necessarily result from a certain previous state of affairs ... - Tony Esolen Wed, 16 May 2012 02:36:57 +0100