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1 Explain Hume’s distinction between ‘relations of ideas’ and ‘matters of fact’. Why did he think much traditional metaphysics should be ‘committed to the flames’?

2 Hume suggests that in order to understand the laws of nature and all the operations of bodies we depend entirely on experience, and that the effects of causes cannot be known a priori or through reason alone. What is his argument and is he right?

3 ‘The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction’ (Hume). Explain and critically discuss.