2. What is the difference between an impression and an idea? And how does Hume use the distinction as the basis for determining whether a philosophic term is meaningful?
3. How do the three principles of association connect our ideas through memory or imagination?
4. What is the difference between relations of ideas and matters of fact?
5. How is all reasoning regarding matters of fact based on cause and effect?
6. If the cause-effect relation is the basis for our knowledge of matters of fact and "real existence," then how can we know what causes our experiences?
7. Why can't we suppose that the future will resemble the past? And why is such a supposition important for making claims about the course (or laws) of nature?
8. What does Hume mean when he says that our inference that "similar qualities will always be conjoined with similar secret powers" is neither intuitive nor demonstrative?
9. Why is arguing that, based on experience, the future will resemble the past, an example of the fallacy of begging the question? And why does such fallacious reasoning not bother Hume as an agent (vs. a philosopher)?