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Hume II: “A Well-Meanin’ Critter”

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PART THREE: HUME

Hume II: “A WELL-MEANIN’ CRITTER”

**“**A WELL-MEANIN’ CRITTER” — Life of Hume. Impact of these empiricist currents of thought upon Hume at age eighteen. Treatise of Human Nature begun, finished after intense work and illness in eight years. The development of the arguments of empiricism to devastating conclusions. Humes drives home the empiricist claim that knowledge is only by sensory experience Impressions and ideas are the only contents of the mind. Complex ideas Without impressions, there can be no ideas. Use of the relation between impressions and ideas to attack any “suspicious” philosophic term: substance, self, God, causality (all Cartesian terms). For none of these can sense impressions be shown; therefore they have no meaning. “Commit it then to the flames.” Ideas fall into groups. Association of ideas, by which one idea leads to another: the three laws of resemblance, contiguity, cause and effect.

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