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Ep. 57: Hume Was Wrong

Young Heretics

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Hume's Philosophy of Human Understanding

Philosopher hume wrote a treatise of human nature, which was hugely disappointing to him in its reception. He said it was born essentially dead from the press at it. And so he went away and kind of thought about how to write better. His enquiry concerning human understanding is basically the fruit of that labor. As we'll see, a lot of his ideas sor of sound like stuff that we're dealing with now.

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