Don’t take the world for granted.
David Hume cautions us against conclusions based on what we take for granted. Since the sun has always risen, we assume that it will rise forever. According to the Scottish philosopher, we cannot be sure, because it is impossible today to experience that tomorrow, the sun will rise. We don’t have any evidence of what will happen in the future.
Let’s consider the 2020 pandemic. Have we ever imagined that our life would have changed so much? When I went to bed on March 12, 2020, based on my experience, I was taking for granted that March 13, 2020, was going to be a day like any other. I was wrong. Global economic activity has come to a standstill. We have been confined for months, and it is not over yet.
“In our reasonings concerning fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance. A wise man therefore proportions his belief to the evidence. ” — David Hume.
Hume was born in 1711 in Edinburgh, Scotland and lived in the Age of Enlightenment. He would be over 300 years old…
