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Full Idea
Mitigated scepticism is an advantage to mankind, as it limits our enquiries to such subjects as are best adapted to the narrow capacity of human understanding.
Gist of Idea
Mitigated scepticism sensibly confines our enquiries to the narrow capacity of human understanding
Source
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XII.III.130)
Book Ref
Hume,David: 'Enquiries Conc. Human Understanding, Morals', ed/tr. Selby-Bigge/Nidditch [OUP 1975], p.162