Posted by tom on April 19, 19100 at 23:20:36:

In Reply to: justification posted by kaye on April 19, 19100 at 22:52:14:

: How would Hume justify the claim that it is possible or conceivable that fire will chill us?

Our expectation is just a mental function of habit. We are not justified in belief that the future will
be like the past. We just come to this conclusion because the past was like that past. So to Hume it is
possible that in the future that fire will be cold.

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