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[from 'Logic (Encyclopedia I)' by Georg W.F.Hegel, in 12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique ]

Full Idea

The Humean standpoint proclaims the thinking of our perceptions to be inadmissible; i.e. the eliciting of the universal and necessary out of those perceptions.

Gist of Idea

The Humean view stops us thinking about perception, and finding universals and necessities in it

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §50)

Book Reference

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'The Hegel Reader', ed/tr. Houlgate,Stephen [Blackwell 1998], p.161


A Reaction

Obviously Hume permits 'relations of ideas', but presumably the point is that his approach only legitimates a rather passive abstraction from experience, rather than an active application of a priori concepts to it. A fair criticism. See Bonjour.