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David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
In David Hume's seminal epistemological work, Section II (in An
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding), "Of the Origin of Ideas," wherein
David Hume outlines, with uncommon sharpness and uncanny skill, not only
what he believed to be the true origin of what we call ideas, but the way
we formulate them. According to Hume, little thought is truly ....
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.... like good philosophical argumentation, and are
highly convincing, except for one seemingly overlooked flaw. Later on in "…
Ideas" Hume states "those who would assert that this position is not
universally true nor without exception, have only one, and that any easy
method refuting it; by producing an idea, which, in their opinion, is not
derived from this source ("An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,"
p.164.)" He goes on to propose that, if this theory is not true, if there
is only ....
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