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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism

2197	Reason assists experience in discovering laws, and in measuring their application [Hume]
	Full Idea: Abstract reasonings are employed, either to assist experience in the discovery of natural laws, or to determine their influence in particular instances, where it depends upon any precise degree of distance or quantity.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], IV.I.27)