David Hume's Version Of Empiricism

Hume’s version of empiricism begins with his distinction between analytic propositions “relationship of ideas,” which he considers to be a priori and true by definition, and synthetic propositions, which he considers to be a posteriori (“matters of fact”), and which are opposite of analytic propositions because they’re derived from our senses. Synthetic propositions can pose a problem since they can be untrue. An example is the sun. We can say that it will rise tomorrow—which is likely to happen because we have experienced it before. However, it is not impossible that it will not rise. We don’t know that this will definitely happen. All we really know is that “First X happens, then Y happens” (93), and in our experience events like X are