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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. |
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) |
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) |