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To: Dataman
This is why Hume, after he said it is reasonable to believe in a Creator, also said that because there is no Creator reason must be unreliable.

I think that, at best, Hume might have agreed that it was useful to believe in a Creator, not reasonable. And while Hume certainly said that some sorts of reason - determining causal relationships in particular - were logically unreliable, this is hardly the same as suggesting that all reason is unreliable, nor is it predicated at all on his belief in the absence of a Creator - his discussion of the limits of reason neither requires the presence or absence of a Creator.

"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"
"Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion"

782 posted on 01/21/2003 6:17:17 AM PST by general_re (Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.)
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To: general_re
Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.

Personally, I'm partial to callocs.

833 posted on 01/21/2003 2:45:26 PM PST by beavus (Voltaire had Candide, Judge has Beavis & Butthead.)
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