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    David Hume (/hjuːm/; born David Home; 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian...
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    David Hume Kennerly (born March 9, 1947) is an American photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs...
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  • free dictionary. David Hume (1711–1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. David Hume may also refer to: David Hume of Godscroft (1558–1629)...
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  • Deism (section David Hume)
    necessitarians. Views differ on whether David Hume was a Deist, an atheist, or something else. Like the Deists, Hume rejected revelation, and his famous essay...
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  • David Hume or Home of Godscroft (1558–1629) was a Scottish historian and political theorist, poet and controversialist, a major intellectual figure in...
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  • Desmond David Hume is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost portrayed by Henry Ian Cusick. Desmond's name is a tribute to David Hume, the...
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    David Hume, Baron Hume of Ninewells FRSE (1757–1838) was a Scottish advocate, judge and legal scholar, whose work on Scots criminal law and Scots private...
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  • Hobbes. Members of the Associationist School, including John Locke, David Hume, David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Alexander...
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  • up hume in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hume most commonly refers to: David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish philosopher Hume may also refer to: Hume (surname)...
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    stands." Einstein was an admirer of the philosophy of David Hume; in 1944 he said "If one reads Hume’s books, one is amazed that many and sometimes even highly...
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    additional force, ability, and security, that society becomes advantageous. - David Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature In his introduction to The Art of the Pin-Maker...
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  • The History of England (1754–1761) is David Hume's great work on the history of England (also covering Wales, Scotland, and Ireland), which he wrote in...
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  • critique of the problem of induction was given by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Although the use of inductive reasoning demonstrates considerable success...
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  • David Milford Hume (21 October 1917, Muskegon, Michigan, United States - 19 May 1973), was an American medical doctor and pioneer in kidney disease research...
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  • rejected the argument on the basis that humans cannot know God's nature. David Hume also offered an empirical objection, criticising its lack of evidential...
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    First formulated by David Hume, the problem of induction questions our reasons for believing that the future will resemble the past, or more broadly it...
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    Miracle (section David Hume)
    position is expressed (for instance) by Thomas Jefferson, and the latter by David Hume. Theologians typically say that, with divine providence, God regularly...
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    lectures at the University of Edinburgh, leading him to collaborate with David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow...
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    property. In contrast to the figures discussed in this section thus far David Hume lived a relatively quiet life that had settled down to a relatively stable...
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  • Inequality Hume, David (1739). A Treatise of Human Nature. Project Gutenberg. pp. Book III, Part II, Section II. Retrieved 2 February 2016. Hume, David (1739)...
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  • derived from, the is–ought problem in moral philosophy, characterized by David Hume. In his essay Science as a Vocation (1917) Max Weber draws a distinction...
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  • software), or "hardware-agnostic". Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume contended that meaningful statements about the universe are always qualified...
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    Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published...
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  • Hume, David (1948). "Part II". Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (with introduction by Norman Kemp Smith ed.). Social Sciences Publishers. Hume,...
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    David Hume Pinsent (/ˈpɪnˌsɛnt/; 24 May 1891 – 8 May 1918) was a collaborator and an alleged lover of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's...
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  • formally in systems of second-order logic. Hume's principle is named for the Scottish philosopher David Hume and was coined by George Boolos. HP plays...
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    Idea (section David Hume)
    ISBN 978-0-8264-8983-8.[page needed] Banach, David. "Locke on Ideas." Locke on Ideas. St. Anselm College, 2006[page needed] Hume, David (2008), "Of the Origin of Ideas"...
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  • nearest to the concerns of the present article is the "efficient" one. David Hume, as part of his opposition to rationalism, argued that pure reason alone...
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    vol. 4, p. 480. Hume, D., A Treatise of Human Nature, L.A. Selby-Bigge (ed.), Oxford University Press, London, UK, 1975. Hume, David. "An Enquiry Concerning...
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  • David Hume (1796 Berwick, Scotland - 1 February 1864 Grahamstown) was an explorer and big-game hunter who lived much of his life in Cape Colony. David...
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