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Hume as in: David Hume
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Hume attempted to develop a systematic naturalistic philosophy.Hume = Scottish philosopher who restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
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Maybe I was across an ocean, on another continent, reading Hume under a stone archway. (source)Hume = 18th century philosopher who championed empiricism
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I came out mostly at night, moving through the ruins like a furtive shadow, sometimes gazing at my lighted palace tower like David Hume peering in his own windows and solemnly deciding that he wasn't home.† (source)David Hume = Scottish philosopher who restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
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But as he is in a category of his own in many ways, we will first concentrate on David Hume, who lived from 1711 to 1776.† (source)
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Bravo Adam Smith and David Hume.† (source)
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To follow Kant one must also understand something about the Scottish philosopher David Hume.† (source)
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The men were arguing friendly-like about a fellow named Hume.† (source)Hume = David Hume -- Scottish philosopher who restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
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But then Mason, Wilson, and John Adams, no less than Jefferson, were, as they all appreciated, drawing on long familiarity with the seminal works of the English and Scottish writers John Locke, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, and Henry St. John Bolingbroke, or such English poets as Defoe ("When kings the sword of justice first lay down, / They are no kings, though they possess the crown.† (source)David Hume = Scottish philosopher who restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
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For that reason alone, he would not be leaving the isolated cottage outside Hume alive.† (source)Hume = David Hume -- Scottish philosopher who restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
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While other students were off playing with their charges in the Sanctuary, Omar was forced to endure Tweedy's heavily advertised, sparsely attended lectures on everything from Greek architecture to the exhaustive works of David Hume.† (source)David Hume = Scottish philosopher who restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
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I imagined him sitting late at night in one of Butler Library's twenty-four-hour study rooms, poring over the likes of Kant and Hume and Plato, his favorite of all the philosophers he read, looking for a means to close the gap between what he'd experienced and what he was able to say, looking for something reliable in a world that had become untrustworthy, looking for some sort of structured belief, some grand encyclopedia with an index in which he could look up "genocide" and learn where it fit in the universe.† (source)Hume = David Hume -- Scottish philosopher who restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
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David Hume, too, who was some years after secretary to Lord Hertford, when minister in France, and afterward to General Conway, when secretary of state, told me he had seen among the papers in that office, letters from Braddock highly recommending me.† (source)David Hume = Scottish philosopher who restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
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Finally, at the age of twenty-five, he abandoned his wife and child and after many hardships came to Berlin where he joined a group of philosophers, read Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant, and began to write philosophical books, it is astonishing how he was able to gobble up complicated philosophical treatises with such ease.† (source)Hume = David Hume -- Scottish philosopher who restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)
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Hume's Essays, vol. I, page 128: "The Rise of Arts and Sciences."† (source)
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And to see Hume Plover whipping up his horse to talk to the dead is enough to give me the all overs.† (source)
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Jim Hume was chasing his cows back through the fence some hunter had cut.† (source)
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