Skeptic Belief; Hume Visions

          Travel down the theological argument of belief and you come to a phrase original cause.  How does one begin to have an idea of the root origin of a particular event? How does one know through a complex casual chain what is truly origin?  For myself, I refrain from using dogmatic circles and in lieu place emphasis on probability of the outlier.  Following to model similar to David Hume’s, propositions also remove the failure by contradiction and allow for more openly inclusive understanding rather than unique knowledge.  It would seem then that within discipline of sociology is where we are able pursue connections of belief into a cultural context that allows for moral agency.  It does not discount any pursuant ability to a true root, but leaves area for more suitable understanding down the road when learned. 

            So with the structure of our propositional direction and with only the sensations of the external objects in question, original causes can never be readily found to better detail terms through reasoning.  As the cause of an idea cannot be the idea itself, external bodies can only impinge upon one and give a representation of itself in memory.  .  Due to also never having the ability of our minds to capsulize nor see an entirety of a particular event, our imagination comes into play to bridge connections out of habited, causal inferences.  We therefore mistakenly see connection of bodily motion as willed but as Hume critiques, only our mind wills an event; it is another event that immediately follows of motion and vice versa.

            If the argument of internal and external knowledge of belief above is valid, philosophers and theologians have failed to acknowledge it and have tried to conceptualize power of will by Maker and the like in terms of chains of reasoning that lead inevitably to extraordinary claims as we can never see the connections between the two due to our limited sensory capabilities.  These intelligent principles of others find themselves washed of thorough true cause as it takes upon it the power of a deity that imbues everything with its will alone, denying moral and object agency.  If avoiding these dogmatic philosophies rightly, then theory of universal energies is far too bold as the grounds of the theory are far too extraordinary for mortal ignorance to comprehend.  Only having felt the connections through habituation, one can only use their imagination to render the connections though never truly have sight of it in any defined sense of the term.  Hume’s perceptions in the weakness of cause and effect thinking calls into question once more of how little we know of the idea itself of necessary connections and its assistance through a being’s own mind and imaginative cognitions.  Though these relationships give a wealth of understanding in their external world about them, it is simply built upon similar instances of experience prior that has built that connection of outcomes and actions.  Therefore, though practically useful, cause and effect relationships are merely “taken-for-granteds” by persons that are habitualized into mental routine.

            So if this is the total of our abilities to perceive intrusions upon ourselves, what do we really know from faulty cause and effect or blind faith to false true causes? The only true causes found is that they have yet to be discovered from behind their veil of mystery.  Without any divine knowledge bestowed, and if so done against laws of nature and perfect being understanding, there seems little reason to place so much “belief” upon anything other than what I can properly determine in my finite understanding.  Sometimes they may warrant across extraordinary claims that fall well short of origin causes, like my lucky dollar bill, but for the most part they adhere to objective probability that falls in line with faulty cause and effect.  Though not the best by any means, I at least know the limits and try to pursue a deeper knowledge beyond that to which I currently know and do not fail to rise to meet the challenge of looking for more detailed origin causes.