That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood.


An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge (1894), section 4, part 1

David Hume Quotes

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise....

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise....

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise....

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise....