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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

A work by David Hume

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  • What korrents draws from it

    All our ideas, the fainter perceptions, are copies of our impressions, the more lively ones, Knowledge of cause and effect is never reached by reasoning a priori; it comes entirely from experience of things constantly conjoined, Custom is the great guide of human life; it alone makes experience useful by leading us to expect the future to resemble the past …

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Edition korrents quotes
1748; 1777 edition, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge2
Claims on korrents
71

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. All our ideas, the fainter perceptions, are copies of our impressions, the more lively ones (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Knowledge of cause and effect is never reached by reasoning a priori; it comes entirely from experience of things constantly conjoined (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Custom is the great guide of human life; it alone makes experience useful by leading us to expect the future to resemble the past (opens korrents.com)1

  4. A wise person proportions their belief to the evidence (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Because uniform experience establishes the laws of nature, the proof against any miracle is as complete as an argument from experience can be (opens korrents.com)1

  6. No testimony suffices to establish a miracle unless its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it seeks to establish (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748; 1777 edition, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748; 1777 edition, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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