著者

成田 正人

出版者

日本大学

巻号頁・発行日

2017

著者

成田 正人

出版者

日本イギリス哲学会

雑誌

イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.38, pp.27-41, 2015-03-20 (Released:2018-03-30)

参考文献数

13

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Hume establishes the first principle in his study of human nature: ʻall our simple ideas proceed ... from their correspondent impressionsʼ(T 1.1.1.11). It is so primary for his empiricism that based on it, he argues about space and time, a necessary connection between cause and effect, and even vice and virtue. But then why does he present the missing shade of blue as a contradictory example to it? In this paper, I will start by describing the resemblance thesis and the causal thesis involved in his first principle. I will then explain why the missing shade of blue is not a counterexample to the former thesis, but to the latter. Finally, I will argue why he does present the missing shade of blue though it does not affect his first principle.