Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Buddhaghosa, Proclus and David Hume

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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

2238	Reason can never show that experiences are connected to external objects [Hume]

2242	Mitigated scepticism draws attention to the limitations of human reason, and encourages modesty [Hume]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 2. Types of Scepticism

2243	Mitigated scepticism sensibly confines our enquiries to the narrow capacity of human understanding [Hume]

5548	Hume became a total sceptic, because he believed that reason was a deception [Hume, by Kant]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism

2236	Examples of illusion only show that sense experience needs correction by reason [Hume]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique

2240	It is a very extravagant aim of the sceptics to destroy reason and argument by means of reason and argument [Hume]

2241	The main objection to scepticism is that no good can come of it [Hume]