Hume

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1. Hume - Noun

2. Hume - Proper noun

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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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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. Sydney Smith

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

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. Jean-Baptiste Say

I would guess it didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit down with Brit Hume. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it? Jack Cafferty

Hume was right about one thing: to have real confidence in a miracle, one needs evidence-massive, well-documented, and either replicated or independently corroborated evidence from multiple and reliable sources. No religious miracle even comes close to meeting those standards. Jerry Coyne

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