Hume says, "all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and that all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past." However, Hume argues that the proof of this last supposition by probable arguments, or arguments regarding existence, must be going in a circle.

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Hume argues that our knowledge of cause and effect is derived from experience, and therefore we cannot prove that the future will be conformable to the past based solely on past experience (i.e. by probable arguments), as this would be circular reasoning.

Hume Says, "All Arguments Concerning Existence Are Founded on the Relation