This is where Hume begins to hint that reason is nothing more than what we have learned through pleasures and pains. He gives the example of the apple on the tree that looks good by all things measurable before biting into it, but is definitely bad and bitter after biting into it. This being the simplest of comparisons makes it easy to transfer the idea to vice and virtue when considering passions...
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He gives the example of the apple on the tree that looks good by all things measurable before biting into it, but is definitely bad and bitter after biting into it. This being the simplest of comparisons makes it easy to transfer the idea to vice and virtue when considering passions. Many things in life look good when they are not, but our reason tells they are because it has not yet learned otherwise from the absence of pain or presence of pleasure...
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