Hume Matters of Fact

Hume's notion of matters of fact has always fascinated me. As an posteriori synthetic, experiential 'knowledge,' matters of fact give no true knowledge of the future or even reality. They simply serve as a means for gathering information, forming habit, and being able to function based on a form of conditioned judgement. This conditioning, through experience, aides in the way we associate ideas. In addition, a priori analytics such as mathematics, logic and geometry, when combined with associated ideas, give us a substantial, methodological, and useful was of navigating through life. While the only true knowledge is that which is true by definition, repeated experience and our ability to apply a priori knowledge to said experience, gives us the tools to navigate based on probability and justified belief.