There is nothing without a cause and the effect

relations on the Human Imagination and the

External Physical World: A Philosophical and a
Logical Case Study of who are Considered
Africans or Liberians; Is it by race, nationality or
by natural physical existence?

By Dr. Amos M.D.Sirleaf (Ph.D.)

Introduction;

Education is the vital channel through which

culture is transmitted from generation to

generation. In essence, it is the process which

meaning is made out of the experiences, both local

and global, that constitute the fabric of human

life. In most societies education is an instrument of

control in the hands of the powerful; a means by

which inequality is at best maintained, at worst

exacerbated. The banking system of education in

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the context of many African or Third World

Nations keeps knowledge in the hands of the few

and reduces the many to apathy or despair

through the twin strategies of information-

overload and ignorance. Therefore, in an effort to

equate David Hume's philosophical, historical,

political, theatrical, and empirical generalizations

purporting to explain the causes of Hume's

thinking and development of his skepticism of

propensity, and the factors underlying the

transition from his generation of thinking to a

relatively contemporary dominant traditional

research practice, has constituted attempts to fit

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observed events and phenomena into a paradigm

based interpretive mode.

Therefore, the orientation of Hume's two

significant types of enquiry (1) Relations of Ideas,

(2) Matter of Fact. As stated by Hume, the first

only shows the formal connection between ideas as

in "Three Times Five is Equal to half of Thirty.

The concept of "Circles are round" "The earth is

flat", the blind can or can not dreamthese

expressions in reality, are implications of words or

concepts, and although these words are certain

and are also rather trivial. For instance, the

concept of "Matter of Fact' are more interesting

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statements in an enquary of human understanding

because they made some claim about the external

world rather than referring to themselves.

Putting David Hume's theory into a modern or

contemporary prospective and understanding,

David Hume's skeptical and traditional

independence thinking orientation can be

exemplified among other things as neo-classical

and endogenous cultural, and traditional

understanding prospective. Hence, this research

attempts to pose a philosophical and research

question or enquary about David Hume's

philosophy of skepticism?

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A. Why is it that a conceptual view has emerged

from David Humes' philosophy and concepts that

many contemporary thinkers can relate to

through their own personal skepticism, cultural,

ethnic, and historic experiences and reality as it

relate to science as a part of an external physical

world?

It is essential to elucidate in responding to some

aspects of the research enquiry or question, as it

relates to the on going process of interpretation

and reinterpretation of philosophical and historic

skeptic, like David Hume's argument against the

assumption made in science in regards to Cause

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and Effect. because, David Hume's philosophy in

my personal opinion, has relatively produced

some degree of results and product of

contemporary Human Imagination, leading to a

strategic and critical thinking result and belief

that, that actually "Cause and Effect Relation

relevant to the assumption made in science in this

regard, is just a by product of human

Imagination, or just a part of the external Physical

World. Based upon this analysis, It is imperative

and save to elucidate that the interpretation and

reinterpretation of David Hume's philosophy of

inquiry concerning Human Understanding as it

relates to "Ideas and Matter of Fact, can be

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alluded to our physical world and culture of our

natural comprehension and existence. "

It is important to address David Hume's concepts

of "The Origin of Ideas" in reference the research

thesis; Who is Considered African? As articulated

by Hume for which the researcher strongly

supports, that there is a considerable difference

between the perceptions the human mind, when a

man feels the pain of excessive heat, or the

pleasure of moderate warmth, and when he

afterwards recalls to his memory this sensation, or

anticipates it by his imagination. For instance, a

man in a fit of anger, as David Hume articulates, is

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actuated in a very different manner from one who

only thinks of that emotion. Another example or

analogy of Hume's is that if you tell me, that any

person is in love, I easily understand your

meaning, and form a just conception of his

situation, but never can mistake that conception

for the real disorders and agitation's of the

passion. Consequently, when we as human being

reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our

though is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects

truly, but the colors which it employs are faint and

dull, in comparison of those in which our original

perceptions were clothed. It is significant therefore

to address the research thesis question as to who is

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considered African? Based on the researcher's

philosophical, historical, and anthropological

shared agreement with David Hume, the concept

of "Who is considered an African", can be

sensitively receptive and responsive form my

personal philosophical, historical, and cultural

anthropological, and geographic mutation and

nativity from the land called Africa as a land and

continent originally occupied by black people. Just

as Europe previously and predominantly occupied

by white European people. Asia, and other

continents and the human species occupation on

the land. How did I arrive at the conclusion that

who is considered an African means that one has

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to be a black person? I which to embrace David

Hume's concept of "Special Doubts concerning

the Operations of the Understanding in Section 4

Part 1: "Al the objects of human reason or

enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds,

to wit: (1) Reasons of Ideas, (2) Matters of Fact.

Of the first kinds, are the sciences of Geometry,

Algebra, and Arithmetic; and in short, every

affirmation, which is either intuitively or

demonstratively certain. That the square of the

hypotenuse is equal to the square of the two sides.

This concept is a proposition, which expresses a

relation between these figures. That three times

five is equal to half of thirty expresses a relation

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between these numbers. Propositions of this kind

are discoverable by the mere operation of though,

without dependence on what is anywhere existent

in the universe. In light of the above analogy, it

becomes imperative that the researcher echo from

these great social theorists: Augusts Comte and

Emmet Durkheim. These social theorists declared

that social phenomena should be treated as things

and consequently could be indirectly observed by

the constraints they place on people. Durkehim

belief in the realness of objective social

phenomena and he rigious procedures which are

necessary to infer these social constraints.

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There is a major hypothesis and justification for

alluding to the concepts and the research enquiry

or question when one talks about Africa and who

is considered an African. Dark-skinned Black are

the original Occupants of the continent called

Africa. For instance, according to Dr. Amos

M.D.Sirleaf's Introduction to Blacology: "The

Black Race, The African Continent, and The

Ultimate Necessity for the Development of Black

Cultural Science (Blacology): The 21st Century

African System of Thought" 2001, Page 5. Dr.

Sirleaf articulates that "sometimes a group of

genes for one characteristic will simply dominate a

contrasting group of genes for the same

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characteristic or trait, making the dominated

genes recessive. The groups in a perpetual

isolation will begin to mate or mutate within it

kinds and types with one another in the same

population. These groups will ultimately be

sharing the same gene for certain reproductive

results. This population will be making group of

genes for certain physical characteristics stronger

and stronger, more and more dominate, recessive,

subordinate, and superior. Nevertheless, by ten

thousand years ago, and probably much earlier,

the three great races, or racial stocks, which many

anthropologists identify today, had come into

existence. That is because the people of the Far

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Eas, the Asians, or the Yellow race, had pretty

much lived isolated from many centuries from the

people of Africa, whom we called Black race, and

both had lived pretty much in isolation from

European people for many centuries. Asia

Minor(Turky and Itan/Persia), whom we called

the white race. Based upon these conceptual and

Biological analysis, one can infer that the "Dark-

skinned" (Black People) of the continent of Africa,

are the original occupants of the continent of

Africa. In essence, this research has made an

attempt to analyze and in many aspects, to

understand and finally to relate to David Hume's

philosophical skepticism with specificity of his

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arguments against the assumptions made in

Science in regards to Cause and Effect, as just a

by product of the Human Mind, and does not exist

in the physical world. The ramification of choice

as it reflect to Who is considered an African, was

with major hypothesis, justified that dark-skinned

Black people are the original occupants of the

continent called Africa from David Hume's

philosophy of " The Origin of Ideas".

REFERENCES

1. burton F. Porter; Philosophy Though Fiction

and Film Upper saddle River, New Jersey, 2003.

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2. See "The Black Race, The African Continent,

and The Ultimate Necessity for the Development

of Blacology: The 21st Century African System

of Thought. By Amos M.D.Sirleaf, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice President of "Blacology" A

Cultural Science Research and Development

Institute, INC. 2001.

3. See McDaniel, CO & Balgoppol, PR (1974) A

Three Dimensional Analysis of Black

Leadership, University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh. PA

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4. Hsia, H.J. (1988) Mass Communication

Research Methods: A Spep-by step Approach.

Hillsdale, N.J. Lawrence Erbaum.

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