David Hume
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- "Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach on the province of grammarians, and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern." - David Hume in An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
David Hume (April 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Although in recent years interest in Hume's work has centred on his philosophical writing, it was as an historian that he first gained recognition and respect. His The History of England was the standard work on English history for sixty or seventy years until Macaulay's.
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See also
- Philosophers encroaching on the province of grammarians
- Age of reason
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Human science
- Hume's fork
- Hume's Law
- Hume's principle
- Liberalism
- The Missing Shade of Blue
- Scientific scepticism
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