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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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For that reason alone, he would not be leaving the isolated cottage outside Hume alive.† (source)
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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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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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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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Jim Hume was chasing his cows back through the fence some hunter had cut.† (source)
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Bravo Adam Smith and David Hume.† (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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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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But why should we worry ourselves that Proust and Hume and Aristotle and Archimedes are all fading into oblivion?† (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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Farther back is a large, glassed-in bookcase with sets of Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Lever, three sets of Shakespeare, The World's Best Literature in fifty large volumes, Hume's History of England, Thiers' History of the Consulate and Empire, Smollett's History of England, Gibbons Roman Empire and miscellaneous volumes of old plays, poetry, and several histories of Ireland.† (source)
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To follow Kant one must also understand something about the Scottish philosopher David Hume.† (source)
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