Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment. Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. Or if we reason concerning it, and endeavour to fix its standard, we regard a new fact, to wit, the general tastes of mankind, or some such fact, which may be the object of reasoning and enquiry
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Hume's empirical attitude is very clear, he does not think that the empirical way of reasoning has any rational place, only rely on the inertia of the human mind to gain trust. He pointed out that the constant connection of causality makes us accustomed to making the same judgments and behavioral trends as in previous experience, but without any rational reasoning process, and simply because such things occur in large numbers in past experience.