Indeed, Bayes’s essay was first published by Richard Price, who employed it against Hume’s own doubts concerning induction.[280] Price, largely forgotten today, was in their day nearly as famous as Hume in Britain, and more so in the American colonies.[281] Hume acknowledged that Price’s challenge was “plausible and ingenious” and might require him to rethink his position, but he never revised his essay in light of it.[282]
