Daivd Hume's An enquiry of human understanding

Hume believed that all reasoning concerning matters of facts are based upon the relation of cause and effect. “The hearing of an articulate voice and rational discourse in the dark assures us the presence of some person: Why? Because these are the effects of the human make and fabric , and closely connected with it. If we had no experience we would no way to tell what would come after the cause, anything could be possible. The hearing of the voice is the cause and the effect is that we believe it is human through the experience of hearing the human voice. Just because the sun has risen before doesn’t mean it will again .

Hume finds this problematic because he says that even though the cause was proceeded by an effect there is no evidence that the cause was responsible for the effect. But according to Hume there is no actual evidence to support this idea. He uses an example to explain this . We can only make guesses on what will happen in the future, based on our experiences of the past. Out of custom , we predict that the sun will rise everyday like it has in the past.