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...David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His The History of England ...

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...The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism addressed toward the former book. In it, Hume explains his theory of epistemology, and argues ag...

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...e author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how they are to be divided. It includes important statements of Scepticism and Hume's experimental method. Part 1 deals with the nature of ideas. Part 2 deals with the ideas of space and time. Part 3 deals with knowledge and probability. Part 4 deals with skeptical and other systems of philosophy, inclu...

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...In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, philosopher David Hume examines whether belief in God can be rational. The work takes the form of a debate between three characters: Cleanthes, who argues that the existence and nature of God can be empirically verified; Demea, who argue...

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...ous distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel and others to lay the foundation for philosophical inquiry by general readers and scholars alike. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...) and empiricism (sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and knowledge) and, in particular, to counter the radical empiricism of David Hume (our beliefs are purely the result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences). Using the methods of science, Kant demonstrates that though each mind may, indeed, create its own u...

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...In this paper, Col David B. Hume, who served as an expeditionary air support operation group commander in Operation Iraqi Freedom, explores some of the mission employment and doctrinal issues associated with this emerging weapons system and arg...

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...a girl until you thought that your pet pig would be next. Associationism." "David Hume?" she chuckled. "John Locke/David Hume--I'm not sure which. " ... ... until you thought that your pet pig would be next. Associationism." "David Hume?" she chuckled. "John Locke/David Hume--I'm not sure which. " Rick h...

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...world "out there". By appealing to our imagination, scientific theories reveal what David Deutsch calls "the fabric of reality". Like any other sys... ...reasonable explanation and, thus, does it further our understanding of the world? David Deutsch in "The Fabric of Reality" (p. 11): " ... (I)t is ... ...ed by experts or by society). Even avowed externalists, such as Kripke, Burge, and Davidson admit that the perception of objects and events (by an ... ...ncept of truth rather than on the more nebulous construct of "meaning". Both Donald Davidson and Alfred Tarski suggested that truth exists where seq... ...mainly social) environment? This apparent dichotomy is false. As Richard Rorty and David Annis noted, one can't safely divorce epistemic processes,... ...n of the Logical (a-priori, deductive) Problem of Evil, later expounded on by David Hume in his "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" (1779). Evi... ...are at a loss to conclusively demonstrate His contribution to the natural? As David Hume observed, it is not enough for a miracle to run contra to ... ...racles, they are not violating the Laws of Nature to which they are not subjected. Hume is a skeptic: the evidence in favor of natural laws is so o... ... for exceptions, as Richard Purtill suggested in "Thinking about Religion" (1978)? Hume emphatically denies this possibility. He gives this irrefut...

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...d took him down the mountain. He survived. On another Everest expedition, David Sharp, an Englishman, on his way down did not have oxygen. Many clim... ...ill govern my people.‘ But later (7) Saul wants his attendants to murder David, the slayer of Goliath and the future great king of the Jews. Luckil... ...a of ‗sufficient reason‘ the cosmological argument is close to worthless. David Hume argued that the idea that there is a cause for every result is ... ...‗sufficient reason‘ the cosmological argument is close to worthless. David Hume argued that the idea that there is a cause for every result is a psyc... ...ook at the celestial achievements of the chisel and pallet—Michelangelo‘s David and his ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Last Suppers of daVinci... ... it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more important to the universe... ...ally a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more important to the universe than ... ...is creditors, but who will remember him or her in a generation? If we take Hume‘s approach, or the approach of any leader who starts a war, neither s... ... it was feelings over philosophy. But John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and David Hume found the mind primary. And if, as the Christians say, the mind is wha...

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...d on us by countless generations of hostile hosts and neighbors. The yellow Star of David was only the latest in a series of measures to isolate the... ... The Anti-Israeli: The "Status Quo" promulgated by Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, confined institutionalized religion to matters... ... as causes. Not all the philosophers are in agreement regarding factual causation. Davidson, for instance, admits that facts can be RELEVANT to cau... ...ssness of this sentence is evident. Here, philosophers diverge. Some say (following Hume's reasoning and his constant conjunction relation between ... ...e same tired regularity theory in a more exotic guise. They are all descendants of Hume's definition of causality: "An object followed by another a... ...re these actions and intentions in their classical senses? There is room for doubt. Davidson narrows down the demands. To him, "thinking causes" (ca... ...ns. Good, Natural and Aesthetic "The perception of beauty is a moral test." Henry David Thoreau The distinction often made between emotions and j... ...d as well as the unremembered constitute one's self-identity. IV. The Memory Link Hume said that to be considered in possession of a mind, a creat... ...ptions, beliefs, drives, emotions, desires, etc.)? In other words, can we rephrase Hume and say that to be considered in possession of a mind, a cr...

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...d on us by countless generations of hostile hosts and neighbors. The yellow Star of David was only the latest in a series of measures to isolate the... ... The Anti-Israeli: The "Status Quo" promulgated by Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, confined institutionalized religion to matters... ... as causes. Not all the philosophers are in agreement regarding factual causation. Davidson, for instance, admits that facts can be RELEVANT to cau... ...ssness of this sentence is evident. Here, philosophers diverge. Some say (following Hume's reasoning and his constant conjunction relation between ... ...e same tired regularity theory in a more exotic guise. They are all descendants of Hume's definition of causality: "An object followed by another a... ...re these actions and intentions in their classical senses? There is room for doubt. Davidson narrows down the demands. To him, "thinking causes" (ca... ...ns. Good, Natural and Aesthetic "The perception of beauty is a moral test." Henry David Thoreau The distinction often made between emotions and j... ...d as well as the unremembered constitute one's self-identity. IV. The Memory Link Hume said that to be considered in possession of a mind, a creat... ...ptions, beliefs, drives, emotions, desires, etc.)? In other words, can we rephrase Hume and say that to be considered in possession of a mind, a cr...

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... Cleveland & New York, Simon & Schuster Inc., Editors: Victoria Neufeldt, David B. Guralnik, p. 1133, 1988.) You know?... Sometimes is good to be w... ... [ 4] Berlin, Isaiah (ed.), "The Empiricists: John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume", Dolphin Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., ... ...Berlin, Isaiah (ed.), "The Empiricists: John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume", Dolphin Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1961. ... ...to Linda, but short in Jack’s opinion, however his tallness is unknown to David. Everybody judges him in terms of his/her own tallness and acquaint... .../plato.stanford.edu/entries/pierce-logic/, 1996. [70] Heitkoetter, Joerg; David Beasley, David, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Evolutionary Computing, En...

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...overnment leaders: Viscount DUNROS- SIL, Governor (since 1983); John William David SWAN, Premier (since 1982) Suffrage: universal adult over age 21 El... ...y (PNR), Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre; National Authentic Center (CAN), Mario David Garcia; Anti- Communist Democratic Front (DUA) in coalition with PD... ...ponsibilities in nonurban areas; indepen- dent judiciary Government leaders: David Clive WILSON, Governor since April 1987; Sir David AKERS-JONES, Chi... ... the 1967 war are not included in the data below; as stated in the 1978 Camp David Accords and reaffirmed by the President's 1 September 1982 peace in... ...n Israel and Jordan are to be negoti- ated among the concerned parties; Camp David further specifies that these negotia- tions will resolve the locati... ...lyneaux; Democratic Unionist, Ian Paisley; Social Democratic and Labor, John Hume; Provisional Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams; Alliance, John Cushnahan; Liber...

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...Undead Filth Pg 1810 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics o... ...se 29 Here is an even older representation of the Dynamic of Splitness. David Dawson went hiking through China and climbed the Taoist mountain... ...of them had been a problem argued over by English philosophers like Locke and Hume for decades. The idea of the selective depopulation of the lower... ...y. Not partially. This is why all undead must be killed COMPLETELY DEAD. David Icke’s ‘Lizard’ people explained The explanation for Icke seei...

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...he revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward and claimed a meeting; and you have the feelings of M... .... “His history is more dull, but by no means so danger- ous as that of Mr. Hume. It is history you are reading?” “Y es,” said Miss Rose; without, howe... ...husiasm, entreaty, reason, despair; shouting to his people; satirizing Mr. Davids for his sluggishness; inspiriting Mr. Moss into action; imploring, c... ...e “Annual Reg- ister,” the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” “Blair’s Sermons,” and “Hume and Smollett.” From year’s end to year’s end he never took one of thes...

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...it arose within the limits of the mind itself. From the time of Descartes to Hume and Kant it has had little or nothing to do with facts of science. O... ...y the same laws and described under the same names. A like remark applies to David Hume, of whose philosophy the central principle is the denial of 2... ...same laws and described under the same names. A like remark applies to David Hume, of whose philosophy the central principle is the denial of 28 Meno... ...ssors, not unlike that which Locke exercised upon Berkeley and Berkeley upon Hume himself. All three were both sceptical and ideal in almost equal deg... ... sors had any true conception of language or of the history of philosophy . Hume’s paradox has been forgotten by the world, and did not any more than...

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...s hanged for a piece of boyish incredulity; there, a few years afterwards, David Hume ruined Philosophy and Faith, an undisturbed and well- reputed ci... ...ed for a piece of boyish incredulity; there, a few years afterwards, David Hume ruined Philosophy and Faith, an undisturbed and well- reputed citizen;... ...a mile or so in the green country. It is not so long ago since magisterial David Hume lent the authority of his example to the exodus from the Old Tow... ... or so in the green country. It is not so long ago since magisterial David Hume lent the authority of his example to the exodus from the Old Town, and... ...eet which is still (so oddly may a jest become perpetuated) known as Saint David Street. Nor is the town so large but a holiday schoolboy may harry a ...

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...yle is intolerable, that his historical han- dling is like that of Gibbon, Hume, and other dull people; when he jeers at him for exhuming “La mere Ang... ...Part 1 Illusions Perdues:—II. Un Grand homme de province, 2e p. Eve et David Lost Illusions:—II. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Part 2 E... ...ost Illusions:—II. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Part 2 Eve and David 37 Balzac Scenes de la Vie Parisienne Scenes from Parisian Life Sple... ...ebas, Genestas, Benassis, Bonnet the cure, Minoret the doctor, Pillerault, David Sechard, the two Birotteaus, Chaperon the priest, Judge Popinot, Bour...