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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

2220	Only experience teaches us about our wills [Hume]
	Full Idea: We learn the influence of our will from experience alone.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], VII.I.52)
	A reaction: I can, of course, produce inductive generalisations about what my will can achieve, based on some limited experiences. "I know I can master that". Hobbes (and others) say we have no experience of a 'will'. Hume should be more sceptical!