By the way...there is a fascinating little paragraph in the notes at the bottom of a page in one of Humes works...I wish I could remember exactly where.

He has been going on about his theories and the solipstic nature of his philosophy, when he sort of says as an aside (paraphrased)..." ...though I have thoroughly examined all my logic and find it unassailable and beyond refute, I must admit that sometimes the implications of it become too much, and I have to quit thinking about it and clear my head by treating the world as if it WERE real and physical...etc..."

I will see if I have the original text book and post what Hume admitted about his own concepts...

What we learned in class was that Hume WAS very, very methodical and VERY hard to argue with within the confines of his own system. His logic was internally sound, but he never seemed to fully appreciate the assumptions he had to make to set the premises he used.

I once put up pictures of Hume and Kant on the bulletin board of our graduate seminar room, with quotations under each one ...and each quotation saying almost exactly the same thing...

"It is universally accepted that, to explore philosophy, we must first begin with 'experience'...."

...and under the two quotations, I wrote "Well, so far, so good!"   It got a few chuckles, as after that first paragraph, Hume & Kant headed off in totally different directions as they worked out what to DO with our examination of experience!

I suspect that we are just wired to 'like' different ideas, just as we like different flavors of ice cream....and it's a real trick to learn how to stand to the side and examine our own patterns of reasoning and decision making...but it can be VERY enlightening.