An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748.

Scottish empiricist David Hume made a similar argument, that belief in objective moral truths is unwarranted and to discuss them is meaningless.

Bundle theory, originated by the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, is the ontological theory about objecthood in which an object consists only of a collection ( bundle ) of properties, relations or tropes.

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

David Hume ( 25 August 1776 ) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism.

* 1609 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet

Earlier, the Scottish philosopher David Hume had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values.

The Scottish philosopher David Hume ( 1711 – 1776 ) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism.

A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included James Boswell, David Hume and Adam Smith.

Hutton was one of the most influential participants in the Scottish Enlightenment, and fell in with numerous first-class minds in the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher David Hume and economist Adam Smith.

" This restated the Scottish Enlightenment concept which David Hume had put in 1777 as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and Charles Lyell memorably rephrased in the 1830s as " the present is the key to the past ".

* 1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1776 )

* David Hume ( 1711 – 1776 ) Scottish.

Notably, Paley and Hume both rejected Scottish moral sense theory, on the grounds that one could not know with certainty that there was such a thing as a moral sense.

* David Hume, Scottish philosopher

* December 4 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet ( b. 1560 )

* January 13 – Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, Scottish statesman ( d. 1724 )

* April 26 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher ( d. 1776 )

* David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, economist and historian

David Hume and Adam Smith at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Among the Scottish thinkers and scientists of the period were Francis Hutcheson, Alexander Campbell, David Hume, Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid, Robert Burns, Adam Ferguson, John Playfair, Joseph Black and James Hutton.

Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed what Hume called a ' science of man ' which was expressed historically in works by such as James Burnett, Adam Ferguson, John Millar and William Robertson, all of whom merged a scientific study of how humans behave in ancient and primitive cultures with a strong awareness of the determining forces of modernity.

Following their lead, the Scottish philosopher David Hume used Ogilby's work to illustrate the idea that common sense frequently appeals to a " standard of taste " in aesthetic matters: ' Whoever would assert an equality of genius and elegance between Ogilby and Milton, or Bunyan and Addison, would be thought to defend no less an extravagance, than if he had maintained a mole-hill to be as high as Teneriffe, or a pond as extensive as the ocean.

" Like his friends Adam Smith and David Hume as well as other Scottish intellectuals, he stressed the importance of the spontaneous order ; that is, that coherent and even effective outcomes might result from the uncoordinated actions of many individuals.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

Scottish Borders Council is considering an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland object.

* List of places in the Scottish Borders

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Category: Gardens in the Scottish Borders

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The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

** A Scottish Borders tradition with a repertoire heavy in hornpipes and with heavy use of double stops.

The cairns and Megalithic monuments continued into the Bronze age, and hill forts started to appear, such as Eildon Hill near Melrose in the Scottish Borders, which goes back to around 1000 BC and which accommodated several hundred houses on a fortified hilltop.

Hawick ( ;, ) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland.

* List of places in the Scottish Borders

* Burnfoot, Scottish Borders

* Old Photographs Of Hawick And The Scottish Borders

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The game is also played extensively in the small town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, mainly in the local primary school playground, where it is favored to more traditional childhood past-times such as ' British bulldogs ' and ' Kiss, Cuddle and Torture '.

Scott's childhood at Sandyknowes, in the shadow of Smailholm Tower, introduced him to the tales and folklore of the Scottish Borders.

As a boy, youth and young man, Scott was fascinated by the oral traditions of the Scottish Borders.

In 1796, Scott's friend James Ballantyne founded a printing press in Kelso, in the Scottish Borders.

Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction – stories and novels – at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry ( above all to such classical genres as the epic or poetic tragedy ) as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events.

He returned to Scotland and, in September 1832, died ( under unexplained circumstances ) at Abbotsford, the home he had designed and had built, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.

* Waterloo Monument, a 150 foot memorial to the battle in the Scottish Borders

* 4, 732 km < sup > 2 </ sup > — Scottish Borders, Scotland

* Scottish Borders, West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian and East Lothian cover the extreme north