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  • But the professor barely mentioned them at all, and instead talked about "philosophical underpinnings" and the writings of Cicero and Hume, names I'd never heard.   (source)
  • 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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  • The men were arguing friendly-like about a fellow named Hume.†   (source)
  • He starts out at first along the path that Hume has set before him.†   (source)
  • I hope Hume didn't try to deny that I am me.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • In the meantime, he was desperate for books to be sent—Hume, Johnson, Priestley, Livy, Tacitus, Cicero, "and a Plutarch in French or English."†   (source)
  • 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…†   (source)
  • But why should we worry ourselves that Proust and Hume and Aristotle and Archimedes are all fading into oblivion?†   (source)
  • Hume's Essays, vol. I, page 128: "The Rise of Arts and Sciences.†   (source)
  • Hume heard it all.†   (source)
  • HUME, VIRGINIA†   (source)
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  • Jim Hume was chasing his cows back through the fence some hunter had cut.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Hume proposed the return to our spontaneous experience of the world.†   (source)
  • Hume commit it then to the flames Alberto sat staring down at the table.†   (source)
  • After Hume, the next great philosopher was the German, Immanuel Kant.†   (source)
  • Hume said you can never draw conclusions from is sentences to ought sentences.†   (source)
  • Hume was probably right in that we can't prove what is right or wrong by reason.†   (source)
  • Actually, Hume only rejected miracles because he had never experienced any.†   (source)
  • In the time of Hume there was a widespread belief in angels.†   (source)
  • According to Hume, a miracle is against the laws of nature.†   (source)
  • Hume wanted to know how a child experiences the world.†   (source)
  • But Hume was a philosopher who thought in a different way.†   (source)
  • You are welcome to take children as Hume's verification.†   (source)
  • And there are many 'figments of the imagination' here that Hume would have committed to the flames.†   (source)
  • And we are still at the crux of Hume's philosophy of experience.†   (source)
  • Hume would say that you have experienced a stone falling to the ground many times.†   (source)
  • He agreed with Hume that we cannot know with certainty what the world is like 'in itself.'†   (source)
  • But according to Hume, it is not reason that determines what we say and do.†   (source)
  • This was true of Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant.†   (source)
  • That impression insofar as it is recalled is what Hume calls an 'idea.'†   (source)
  • "Both Descartes and Hume had drawn a sharp line between the ego and 'extended' reality.†   (source)
  • Neither can you say that Hume was wrong but Kant and Schelling were right.†   (source)
  • We may be getting to the crux of Hume's philosophy.†   (source)
  • Hume wanted people to sharpen their awareness.†   (source)
  • According to Hume, everybody has a feeling for other people's welfare.†   (source)
  • Hume emphasizes further that both an impression and an idea can be either simple or complex.†   (source)
  • Hume was not a Christian, neither was he a confirmed atheist.†   (source)
  • When Hume discusses the force of habit, he concentrates on 'the law of causation.'†   (source)
  • Hume used two billiard balls for his example.†   (source)
  • Hume also rebelled against rationalist thought in the area of ethics.†   (source)
  • So, according to Hume, an 'angel' is a complex idea.†   (source)
  • You might say that with Hume's philosophy, the final link between faith and knowledge was broken.†   (source)
  • Hume showed that we can neither perceive nor prove natural laws.†   (source)
  • I thought rationalism went out with Hume.†   (source)
  • Hume grew up near Edinburgh in Scotland.†   (source)
  • When Hume was dying a friend asked him if he believed in life after death.†   (source)
  • No, why don't you use Hume's method and analyze what you perceive as your 'ego.'†   (source)
  • "Hume heard what he heard," said Carrie.†   (source)
  • Who had killed the four terrorists in Cafe Milano and the five terrorists at the cottage in Hume?†   (source)
  • For that reason alone, he would not be leaving the isolated cottage outside Hume alive.†   (source)
  • I can just see Hume Plover in the churchyard whispering to Vernal.†   (source)
  • A single road led into the valley, the private track leading from Hume Road to the cottage itself.†   (source)
  • After telling Aunt Matty and Hume, I came on home.†   (source)
  • Now that he rests in peace, why don't Hume just let him rest.†   (source)
  • I'll be back in about two hours, but first I'll stop and tell Matty and Hume.†   (source)
  • I say if Hume ever smiled he'd break his legs.†   (source)
  • Before I married your Uncle Hume, I was an English teacher.†   (source)
  • And to see Hume Plover whipping up his horse to talk to the dead is enough to give me the all overs.†   (source)
  • Hume never spoke to him all the time he was alive.†   (source)
  • Now he's at rest, and Hume wants to spark up a chat.†   (source)
  • Hume has been saying, in effect, that everything I know about this motorcycle comes to me through my senses.†   (source)
  • Now, I think, in his mind he would have a Hume motorcycle, which provides him with no evidence whatsoever for such concepts as causation.†   (source)
  • This idea that the entire world is within one's own mind could be dismissed as absurd if Hume had just thrown it out for speculation.†   (source)
  • If I answer that metal's hard and shiny and cold to the touch and deforms without breaking under blows from a harder material, Hume says those are all sights and sounds and touch.†   (source)
  • If one accepts the premise that all knowledge comes to us through our senses, Hume says, then one must logically conclude that both "Nature" and "Nature's laws" are creations of our own imagination.†   (source)
  • As a result of this difference, Kant skirts right around the abyss of solipsism that Hume's path leads to and proceeds on an entirely new and different path of his own.†   (source)
  • Common sense today is empiricism, since an overwhelming majority would agree with Hume, even though in other cultures and other times a majority might have differed.†   (source)
  • Thus it was Hume, Kant said, who "aroused me from my dogmatic slumbers" and caused him to write what is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophical treatises ever written, the Critique of Pure Reason, often the subject of an entire University course.†   (source)
  • Hume had previously submitted that if one follows the strictest rules of logical induction and deduction from experience to determine the true nature of the world, one must arrive at certain conclusions.†   (source)
  • To throw out Hume's conclusions was necessary, but unfortunately he had arrived at them in such a way that it was seemingly impossible to throw them out without abandoning empirical reason itself and retiring into some medieval predecessor of empirical reason.†   (source)
  • Hume would have answered that the eighteen-year-old had no thoughts whatsoever, and in giving this answer would have defined himself as an empiricist, one who believes all knowledge is derived exclusively from the senses.†   (source)
  • Hume's motorcycle, the one that makes no sense at all, will occur if our previous hypothetical bed patient, the one who has no senses at all, is suddenly, for one second only, exposed to the sense data of a motorcycle, then deprived of his senses again.†   (source)
  • This refutation of scientific materialism, however, seemed to put him in the camp of philosophic idealism…Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Bradley, Bosanquet…good company all, logical to the last comma, but so difficult to justify in "common sense" language they seemed a burden to him in his defense of Quality rather than an aid.†   (source)
  • Hume's answer is "None.†   (source)
  • For Hume it was neither our reason nor our experience that determined the difference between right and wrong.†   (source)
  • In Hume's day, there were a lot of people who had very clear ideas of 'heaven' or the 'New Jerusalem.'†   (source)
  • Hume would probably agree with Descartes that it is essential to construct a thought process right from the ground.†   (source)
  • The most important empiricists—or philosophers of experience—were Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, and all three were British.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Hume had pointed out that there are clear limits regarding which conclusions we could reach through our sense perceptions.†   (source)
  • The first significant system-builder was Descartes, and he was followed by Spinoza and Leibniz, Locke and Berkeley, Hume and Kant.†   (source)
  • Hume's skepticism with regard to what reason and the senses can tell us forced Kant to think through many of life's important questions again.†   (source)
  • I even think Hume had a strong feeling for the way children—the new citizens of the world— experienced life.†   (source)
  • You remember how Hume claimed that it was only force of habit that made us see a causal link behind all natural processes.†   (source)
  • Hume himself did not die until 1776.†   (source)
  • Didn't Hume say that you can never prove what is right and what is wrong2 You can't draw conclusions from is — sentence? to ought-sentences.†   (source)
  • As an empiricist, Hume took it upon himself to clean up all the woolly concepts and thought constructions that these male philosophers had invented.†   (source)
  • Hume's point is that we sometimes form complex ideas for which there is no corresponding object in the physical world.†   (source)
  • But that very thing which Hume says we cannot prove is what Kant makes into an attribute of human reason.†   (source)
  • Hume wanted to investigate every single idea to see whether it was compounded in a way that does not correspond to reality.†   (source)
  • Hume could have said the same thing.†   (source)
  • Many critics of religion since Hume have claimed that such ideas of God can be associated with how we experienced our own father when we were little.†   (source)
  • Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger,' said Hume.†   (source)
  • You could, fr example, say that Descartes's rationalism was a thesis—which was contradicted by Hume's empirical antithesis.†   (source)
  • Hume emphasized that the expectation of one thing following another does not lie in the things themselves, but in our mind.†   (source)
  • We know at all events that Hume rejected any attempt to prove the immortality of the soul or the existence of God.†   (source)
  • For as Hume put it: If we take in our hands any volume … let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?'†   (source)
  • Hume would say the only thing you have experienced is that the white ball begins to roll across the table.†   (source)
  • Hume begins by establishing that man has two different types of perceptions, namely impressions and ideas.†   (source)
  • He was familiar both with the rationalism of Descartes and Spinoza and the empiricism of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Hume opposed all thoughts and ideas that could not be traced back to corresponding sense perceptions.†   (source)
  • And even the law of causality—which Hume believed man could not experience—belongs to the mind, according to Kant.†   (source)
  • According to Hume, we cannot per-ceive the black billiard ball as being the cause of the white ball's movement.†   (source)
  • In his point of departure Kant agrees with Hume and the empiricists that all our knowledge of the world comes from our sensations.†   (source)
  • But Hume emphasizes that all the elements we put together in our ideas must at some time have entered the mind in the form of 'simple impressions.'†   (source)
  • Hume pointed out that we have no underlying 'personal identity' beneath or behind these perceptions and feelings which come and go.†   (source)
  • Hume could have said the same thing.†   (source)
  • According to Hume and Buddha, yes.†   (source)
  • Hume had an answer to that too.†   (source)
  • His main work, A Treatise of Human Nature, was published when Hume was twenty-eight years old, but he claimed that he got the idea for the book when he was only fifteen.†   (source)
  • I should add that Hume's analysis of the human mind and his rejection of the unalterable ego was put forward almost 2,500 years earlier on the other side of the world.†   (source)
  • Another is the so-called analytical philosophy or logical empiricism, with roots reaching back to Hume and British empiricism, and even to the logic of Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Hume did not deny the existence of unbreakable 'natural laws,' but he held that because we are not in a position to experience the natural laws themselves, we can easily come to the wrong conclusions.†   (source)
  • It is 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement,' as Hume expressed it.†   (source)
  • That's exactly Hume's point.†   (source)
  • Yes, that was typically Hume.†   (source)
  • There were frequent citations in Latin, Greek, and French, extended use of Swift, Franklin, Dr. Price, Machiavelli, Guicciardini's Historia d'Italia, Mon-tesquieu, Plato, Milton, and Hume, in addition to scattered mentions of Aristotle, Thucydides, Hobbes, La Rochefoucauld, and Rousseau, as well as Joseph Priestley, whom Adams had lately come to know in London.†   (source)
  • He headed south along Leeds Manor Road, past fenced pastures and barns, until he came to a town called Hume.†   (source)
  • I need an aircraft with thermal-imaging capability to make a pass over a cottage off Hume Road in Fauquier County.†   (source)
  • It took the single-engine aircraft ten minutes to reach Fauquier County and to locate the small A-frame house in a vale north of Hume Road.†   (source)
  • At home, however, the American media was focused on a house of a far different sort, a timbered A-frame cottage near the town of Hume, Virginia.†   (source)
  • He turned right onto Hume Road and followed it six-tenths of a mile, until he came to an unpaved track.†   (source)
  • Saladin did so, like the surveillance aircraft, with his lights doused, following the dirt-and-gravel road over the rim of the little valley and across the pasture to Hume Road.†   (source)
  • Inside the folder was another folder, locked and encrypted, filled with documents related to Dominion Movers of Alexandria—and among those documents was a one-year lease agreement for a small property near a town called Hume.†   (source)
  • HUME, VIRGINIA†   (source)
  • Hume's a decent man," said Aunt Carrie.†   (source)
  • HUME, VIRGINIA†   (source)
  • Aunt Matty and Hume were the first.†   (source)
  • Hume told Matty that he was driving by the Bascom place, late one night last week, and he heard laughing.†   (source)
  • HUME, VIRGINIA†   (source)
  • HUME, VIRGINIA†   (source)
  • He could see from here the security lights around Jim Hume's barns and silos, beyond that the silver of the highway and the shaggy back of the woods.†   (source)
  • Hume, James.†   (source)
  • He wanted to go on thinking, telling himself the story how Hume was stuck in a bog; he wanted to laugh.†   (source)
  • Hume?†   (source)
  • It was true; he was for the most part happy; he had his wife; he had his children; he had promised in six weeks' time to talk "some nonsense" to the young men of Cardiff about Locke, Hume, Berkeley, and the causes of the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ramsay felt free now to laugh out loud at the thought that Hume had stuck in a bog and an old woman rescued him on condition he said the Lord's Prayer, and chuckling to himself he strolled off to his study.†   (source)
  • She knitted with firm composure, slightly pursing her lips and, without being aware of it, so stiffened and composed the lines of her face in a habit of sternness that when her husband passed, though he was chuckling at the thought that Hume, the philosopher, grown enormously fat, had stuck in a bog, he could not help noting, as he passed, the sternness at the heart of her beauty.†   (source)
  • At the corner of Hume Street a young woman was standing.†   (source)
  • —Hume's History of England, vol. iii. p. 307.†   (source)
  • —Hume's History of England, vol iii. p 306.†   (source)
  • —Hume's History of England, vol. iii. p. 314.†   (source)
  • —Hume's History of England, vol. iii, p324.†   (source)
  • —Hume's History of England, vol. iii, p. 307.†   (source)
  • "Blair's Sermons," and "Hume and Smollett."†   (source)
  • His history is more dull, but by no means so dangerous as that of Mr. Hume.†   (source)
  • {4}Hume.†   (source)
  • …of Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza filled him with awe, he had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere; it reminded him of that statue by Rodin, L'Age d'Airain, which he passionately admired; and then there was Hume: the scepticism of that charming philosopher touched a kindred note in Philip; and, revelling in the lucid style which seemed able to put complicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he read as he might have read a novel, a…†   (source)
  • She discovered that amiable old Dr. Westlake read everything in verse and "light fiction"; that Lyman Cass, the veal-faced, bristly-bearded owner of the mill, had tramped through Gibbon, Hume, Grote, Prescott, and the other thick historians; that he could repeat pages from them—and did.†   (source)
  • As he approached Hume Street corner he found the air heavily scented and his eyes made a swift anxious scrutiny of the young woman's appearance.†   (source)
  • {9}Hume's England.†   (source)
  • If a speech be well drawn up, I read it with pleasure, by whomsoever it may be made—and probably with much greater, if the production of Mr. Hume or Mr. Robertson, than if the genuine words of Caractacus, Agricola, or Alfred the Great.†   (source)
  • Had his office in Hume street.†   (source)
  • Thus, one finds, "the people are /miserable/ poor" in Hume, "how /unworthy/ you treated mankind" in /The Spectator/, and "/wonderful/ silly" in Joseph Butler.†   (source)
  • 3 Hume's "Essays," vol. i., page 128: "The Rise of Arts and Sciences."†   (source)
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