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[from 'Treatise of Human Nature' by David Hume, in 12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique ]

Full Idea

Even Hume did not make empiricism so universal as to include mathematics in it.

Gist of Idea

Even Hume didn't include mathematics in his empiricism

Source

report of David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739]) by Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason Pref

Book Reference

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Practical Reason (Third edition)', ed/tr. Beck,Lewis White [Library of Liberal Arts 1993], p.13


A Reaction

Hume didn't actually exclude mathematics, and the notion of 'relations of ideas' is a pointer. Subsequent empiricist have offered promising accounts. Personally I like the idea that patterns are the key idea.