Seminar about Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The seminar was full of debate and really good opinions about Hume's enquiry concerning human understanding. There were three seminar papers which summarised the main points of the enquiry very well. There was one major area of debate amongst the group about Hume's idea of humans cannot be sure of anything no matter how many times they witness an event. For example, if a person stands in a forest and they see 8 trees cut down and they hear the noise of each tree falling onto the ground then they walk away then another tree falls down then they cannot be certain that it is a tree falling as there is a possibility that the sound came from another object. This debate lasted for most of the seminar and it was good to listen to the range of views from people in my group