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A Matter of Fact, in the Humean
David Hume
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...

 sense, is the type of knowledge that can be characterized as arising out of one's interaction with and experience in the external world (as compared to a Relation of Ideas). In a Kantian
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

 framework, it is equivalent to the synthetic a posteriori
A Posteriori
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Examples:

-The sun will come out tomorrow. (Not reason but habitual)

-There are people outside the room. (One cannot know what is outside one's own experience)

How We Know:

-It is impossible to "know."

-Depend upon The Principles of Induction
Inductive reasoning
Inductive reasoning, also known as induction or inductive logic, is a kind of reasoning that constructs or evaluates propositions that are abstractions of observations. It is commonly construed as a form of reasoning that makes generalizations based on individual instances...

 and The Uniformity of Nature.

-Denying these do not lead to a contradiction.
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