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3 dictionary results for: David Hume
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Hume       [hyoom or, often, yoom] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.David, 1711–76, Scottish philosopher and historian.
2.John, born 1937, Northern Ireland politician: Nobel peace prize 1998.
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Hume       (hyōōm)  Pronunciation Key 
Scottish philosopher and historian whose skeptical arguments concerning induction, causation and religion, including the thesis that human knowledge arises only from sense experience, shaped 19th- and 20th-century empiricist philosophy. His works include A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) and History of England (1754-1762).

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david hume

noun
Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776) [syn: Hume] 

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