An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David HumeThe cleanest demolition of certainty in modern philosophy.
Why It's Lindy
The cleanest demolition of certainty in modern philosophy. Hume showed that much of what we call reason rests on habit, expectation, and custom. Kant said Hume woke him from his dogmatic slumber; science, skepticism, and modern epistemology have been answering him ever since.
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Hume's clear and forceful account of empiricism, causality, probability, miracles, and the limits of what human reason can honestly claim to know.
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Why should I read An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding?
The cleanest demolition of certainty in modern philosophy. Hume showed that much of what we call reason rests on habit, expectation, and custom. Kant said Hume woke him from his dogmatic slumber; science, skepticism, and modern epistemology have been answering him ever since.
What is An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding about?
Hume's clear and forceful account of empiricism, causality, probability, miracles, and the limits of what human reason can honestly claim to know.
