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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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Oct 11, 10

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The best part of this book is Hume's ability to sit down with his thinking cap on, claim our inability to possess any justified true belief of ANY sensory perception, create a method of existence that doesn't allow for any logic to be intertwined with matters of fact, but then proceed to take it off to do things that nearly directly contradict these notions. I understand he was just knocking down religious leaders and politicians who made fallacious, high horsed claims about their understanding of the world and it makes me like him as both a writer and a man AND he got Kant all fired up to write arguments against Hume's empiricism. Gotta love it.

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