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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

2238	Reason can never show that experiences are connected to external objects [Hume]
	Full Idea: Reason can never find any convincing argument from experience to prove that perceptions are connected with any external objects.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XII.I.121)

2242	Mitigated scepticism draws attention to the limitations of human reason, and encourages modesty [Hume]
	Full Idea: A mitigated scepticism … can make dogmatical reasoners become sensible of the strange infirmities of human understanding, and inspire them with more modesty and reserve.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XII.III.129)

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 2. Types of Scepticism

2243	Mitigated scepticism sensibly confines our enquiries to the narrow capacity of human understanding [Hume]
	Full Idea: Mitigated scepticism is an advantage to mankind, as it limits our enquiries to such subjects as are best adapted to the narrow capacity of human understanding.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XII.III.130)

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism

2236	Examples of illusion only show that sense experience needs correction by reason [Hume]
	Full Idea: Trite sceptical examples, such as the oar bent in water, or double images when the eye is pressed, are only sufficient to prove that senses alone are not dependable, but we must correct their evidence with reason.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XII.I.117)

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique

2240	It is a very extravagant aim of the sceptics to destroy reason and argument by means of reason and argument [Hume]
	Full Idea: It may seem a very extravagant attempt of the sceptics to destroy reason by argument and ratiocination; yet is this the grand scope of all their enquiries and disputes.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XII.II.124)

2241	The main objection to scepticism is that no good can come of it [Hume]
	Full Idea: The chief and most confounding objection to excessive scepticism is that no durable good can ever result from it.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XII.II.128)