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This 3 page paper looks at ideas of Hume and Ayer. Emotivism and other ideas are discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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example, there are religious people who believe in the dogma they are taught, but then there are people who believe in other things that similarly cannot be seen. They may
believe in UFOs for example, even though no one has been able to prove their existence. And then there are the skeptics, the agnostics, and the atheists who doubt everything.
They want substantial proof that something exists or not. Believing in God for example is not enough. They want proof of this beings existence and in fact, throughout the years,
philosophers have tried to prove that God exists. Yet, the proofs often fall short. There is no scientific evidence that God exists. There is no DNA. There is nothing substantial
to satisfy the skeptics. Hume and Ayer for example seemed to each want substantial proof that things are real. They each claim, in their own way, that more proof is
necessary in order to understand things. In respect to Humes ideas related to naturalistic fallacy for example, that is aligned with the gap between what exists and what ought to
be (Kraus, 1993). In examining this issue, a look at Humes (2001) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding may be helpful. In his classic volume, the philosopher demonstrates that people
know the causes of events but that this knowledge is really perhaps based on belief. In other words, people cannot really know what causes events. What Hume explains is essentially
that man looks at an event and surmises a cause. For instance, one may see her husbands car parked in front of a female acquaintances apartment complex and assume that
he is having an affair. Yet, that is not a valid conclusion as it is based on conjecture. It is really only a belief. One may apply this concept to
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