Limiting what is known to some few impressions does not leave us with a tenable worldview. Nor does the reduction of inflated intellectual pride offer us an alternative to the gnawing uncertainty that leaves us unable to answer the nagging questions of meaning, origins, and eternity. Hume believed that impressions and ideas of these impressions would have to suffice as the building blocks of any kind of knowledge, but where did Hume get the impression that knowledge is based on impressions?67 His empiricism does little more than beg the question. Hume could not prove God’s existence by the use
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