No Creatures Hiding

David Hume's starting point is an object or a memory. He does seem to allow general properties that can be deduced like the three sides of a triangle but that is more or less trivial. He envisions a creaturely role for humans.

It is not as if past thinkers ignored creaturely but they allowed us to think beyond it as well to something much better. This is generally conceptualized as God or something like Hegel's 'spirit'.

According to Hume, we make judgments based on observations and memories and we act responding to them. However, our response is in no way integral with observations and memories. Because this connection between memory and judgment lacks intrinsic necessity we are proposed as thinkers who cannot get our bearings and have no compass or coordinates.

In a curious way, this way of thinking reminds me of economics. There are a lot of conjectures based on statistical data. Who would define the true meaning of the stock market in a Socratic dialogue? It may be an unfair statement but maybe Hume is not trying to find deep rooted truths but prepare us for a society governed by markets and modernity.

Very like finding a hole possibly made by an animal, but where we do not see any creature there. The hole seems mysterious and without origin and at best vacant.