Hume  (hyōōm)  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). |
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.