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Hume
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Hume as in:  David Hume

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    Hume commit it then to the flames Alberto sat staring down at the table.†  (source)
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    The men were arguing friendly-like about a fellow named Hume.†  (source)
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    He starts out at first along the path that Hume has set before him.†  (source)
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    Jim Hume was chasing his cows back through the fence some hunter had cut.†  (source)
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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)
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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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    Bravo Adam Smith and David Hume.†  (source)
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    But why should we worry ourselves that Proust and Hume and Aristotle and Archimedes are all fading into oblivion?†  (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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    To follow Kant one must also understand something about the Scottish philosopher David Hume.†  (source)
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