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[from 'Logic (Encyclopedia I)' by Georg W.F.Hegel, in 13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 2. Types of Scepticism ]

Full Idea

Humean scepticism should be very carefully distinguished from Greek scepticism. In Humean scepticism, the truth of the empirical, the truth of feeling and intuition is taken as basic. ..Greek scepticism turned itself against the sensible.

Gist of Idea

Humean scepticism, unlike ancient Greek scepticism, accepts the truth of experience as basic

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §39 Rem)

Book Reference

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'The Hegel Reader', ed/tr. Houlgate,Stephen [Blackwell 1998], p.152


A Reaction

This seems right, and Hume himself was quite contemptuous of the sort of scepticism found in the ideas of Sextus Empiricus.