Alyssa Gaither

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA

This song illustrates Hume’s ontological agnosticism near perfectly throughout its entirety. The

very first line starts with the phrase “I’m not aware of too many things.” All through Hume’s

agnosticism, he consistently argues in favor of meaningful conversations with terms that have

meaning, or impressions upon which we can draw from for future conversations. He admits that

he does not have sensual capacity to perceive what is beyond, and therefore cannot claim that the

actual entities or truth about reality are truly fictitious, however the idea itself is fictitious as

humans do not have the capacity to understand what truly is beyond the physical world. The next

line is “I know what I know, if you know what I mean,” which can easily be interpreted as Hume

saying that though he doesn’t know what is further beyond the matter, space, and motion, he

does know how matter, space, and motion behaves as there have been countless accounts

supporting the repetitive and predictable events from matter and motion. The phrase “Before I

get too deep” could be interpreted as we should not go too far and deep into fictitious ideas such

as what a substance is, or what the nature of reality is when the only meaningful conversations

we should have are the conversations that can be derived and can present a similar impression to

the original impression. The two mentions of Philosophy being “the talk on a cereal box” and “a

walk on the slippery rocks” help to emphasize this as the meaning, as very few songs bring up

Philosophy directly. Not to mention, Philosophy has multiple different ways to be interpreted,

and the nature of reality can change at the drop of a hat, making it very difficult to interpret what

reality will be, however the one thing that does not change is how objects interact with one

another, and the impression they create remain consistent, no matter how science or religion

explains them, giving view to how meaningful conversations are the only ones that matter.