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Hume, David

  1. An eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher known for his skepticism . Hume maintained that all knowledge was based on either the impressions of the senses or the logical relations of ideas.


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Example Sentences

We could fill this page with quotations to similar effect from Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and others, if it weren't too tedious.

Many of them—from Denis Diderot and Lawrence Sterne to David Hume and Adam Smith—met in the Paris salon of Baron Thierry Holbach.

Former Ford photographer David Hume Kennerly—who narrowly missed the gunshot—tells Lloyd Grove why he's outraged.

David Hume says of him that "could his manner be copied, its success would be infallible over a modern audience."

He had said, that if he did not see David Hume exposed ere he died, he would cease to believe in Providence.

David Hume wants to review Henry; but that task is so precious, that I will undertake it myself.

To the former I suppose David Hume has transcribed the criticism he intended for us.

Mr. Home thinks that his friend, Mr. David Hume, is much better than he expected to find him.

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