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Definition of David Hume
1. Noun. Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776).
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Literary usage of David Hume
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1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"... interest and value as a record of the deliberations connected with the passing
of the Act of Union. The ' Domestic Details of Sir David Hume of ..."
2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"David Hume (1711-1776) was the second son and third child of a small Scotch ...
David Hume showed no precocity of intelligence, and his mother described him ..."
3. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"David Hume Locke taught that we have certain knowledge of our ideas, demonstrative
knowledge of God and of morality, and practically certain knowledge of ..."
4. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1896)
"David Hume ' " There are no bodies," the idealists dogmatically declared; ...
The Scotchman, David Hume (1711-1776), an acute thinker and classi- 1 ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"I. David Hume In the sketch of his Own Life, which he wrote a few months before
his death, Hume says that he was 6 seized very early with a passion for ..."
6. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"THE ESSAY AS IN David Hume: PHILOSOPHICAL NESCIENCE. The spiritual philosophy of
... A like ambiguity and circumlocution seem to run through David Hume ..."
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