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Commit Hume to the Flames

January 31, 2019 by Randal

“If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school of metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”

-David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding-

Hmm, does Hume’s advice contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No? Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No?

Commit to then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: David Hume, empiricism, Enlightenment, rationalism, self-referential defeat

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