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David Hume

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Scottish philosopher skeptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)

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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. Adam Smith

I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy. Immanuel Kant

Although he never admitted himself to be an atheist as such, he was clearly and unarguably the most vividly elegant and eloquent skeptic of them all. I'm referring, of course, to the great Scottish philosopher David Hume. Jonathan Miller

Adam Smith and David Hume proposed a quantity theory of inflation for money, and a quality theory of inflation for production. Source: Internet

Adam Smith and David Hume were the founding fathers of anti-mercantilist thought. Source: Internet

A classic example of inductive reasoning comes from the empiricist David Hume : :Premise: The sun has risen in the east every morning up until now. Source: Internet

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