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Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Part XII of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Introduction Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by Hume tries to explain whether there is a possibility of religious belief being rational. Hume being an empiricist, someone who believes that all kinds of knowledge are got through experience, strongly reasons that beliefs are rational only if they are adequately reinforced by experiential evidence. This leads us to the question that seek to find out whether there is sufficient evidence in the world that allows individuals to assume an infinitely wise, good, perfect and powerful God.…
While many rationalists such as René Descartes support the notion that the concept of Inception is not possible, empiricists such as David Hume may think differently. Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher known for his system of radical and philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. In one of his works, Hume stated that one cannot create completely new ideas without either prior knowledge of those ideas, or experiencing those ideas. Put differently, he believed that the ideas of an individual are derived or inspired by other ideas that the individual has observed, because there is no such thing as an “original idea.” Taking Hume’s theory into account, in the movie Inception, the protagonist Dom Cobb teaches his new architect, Ariadne, how dreaming works. In their shared dream, Ariadne comes across Dom’s wife, Mal. While this…