On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"
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Hume's Method of Distinguishing the Laws
Hume believed that this type of reasoning, which is achieved through pure thought, can lead us to some basic conclusions such as analytic truths. But anything substantial about the nature of reality or your place in it has to be thoroughgoingly empirical. And so his own method with respect to the mind is empirical. He claims to come up with some of the laws that he announces that doesn't require much work from the armchair.
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