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The first section of the last chapter is organized as an outline of various skeptical arguments.

The treatment includes the arguments of atheism, Cartesian skepticism, " light " skepticism, and rationalist critiques of empiricism.

Hume shows that even light skepticism leads to crushing doubts about the world which-while they ultimately are philosophically justifiable-may only be combated through the non-philosophical adherence to custom or habit.

He ends the section with his own reservations towards Cartesian and Lockean epistemologies.