2. Hume’s account of knowledge. … Knowledge in the strictest sense is confined to current sense impressions, along with ‘intuitions’ about the relations between currently sense-perceived qualities, and certain ‘relations of ideas’, namely those that are ‘demonstrably certain’.

What does Hume think are the two ways we can get knowledge?

In the Treatise, Hume identifies two ways that the mind associates ideas, via natural relations and via philosophical relations. … Cause and effect is one of the three philosophical relations that afford us less than certain knowledge, the other two being identity and situation.

How does Kant overcome Hume's skepticism regarding experiential knowledge or knowledge about the facts of experience?

In the theoretical domain, Kant argues against Humean skepticism by treating the principles he attacks as synthetic a priori rather than a posteriori, and then arguing for the possibility of such judgments by means, in part, of the transcendental idealist claim that our knowledge does not extend to things in themselves …