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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Enquiry Conc Human Understanding' and 'Frege's Distinction of Sense and Reference'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

2196	The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy [Hume]
	Full Idea: The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], IV.I.26)
	A reaction: No wonder some people dislike philosophy. There is no question that the human race is often ludicrously over-confident about its attempts to understand, and a careful examination of the situation tends to undermine such confidence.

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

2187	If we suspect that a philosophical term is meaningless, we should ask what impression it derives from [Hume]
	Full Idea: When we entertain any suspicion that a philosophical term is without any meaning or idea, we need but enquire "from what impression is that supposed idea derived?"
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], II.17)

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

2200	All experimental conclusions assume that the future will be like the past [Hume]
	Full Idea: All our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], IV.II.30)