Many people think that the difference between being a theist, believing, and an atheist, unbelieving, is incredibly important. But if nothing does as well as something about which nothing can be said, it vanishes. If all we can reasonably believe is that the cause of the universe probably bears some remote inconceivable analogy to the other operations of nature, then we are given no usable comprehension, no real understanding, that we can bring back from these misty regions. We might say, following Wittgenstein’s remark, that Hume here ‘deconstructs’ the apparent difference between theism and
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