* David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, ISBN 0-14-044536-6

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

David Hume by Allan Ramsay ( artist ) | Allan Ramsay ( 1766 )

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

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

For David Hume, delicacy of taste is not merely " the ability to detect all the ingredients in a composition ", but also our sensitivity " to pains as well as pleasures, which escape the rest of mankind.

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.

David Hume, after a relentless analysis of the mind, concluded that consciousness consists of fleeting mental states.

This position is a more refined version of the theorem first discovered by David Hume.

For instance, David Hume famously regarded Space and Time as nothing more than psychological facts about human beings, which would effectively reduce Space and Time to ideas, which are properties of humans ( substances ).

Cognitive science has a pre-history traceable back to ancient Greek philosophical texts ( see Plato's Meno ); and certainly must include writers such as Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Benedict de Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Cabanis, Leibniz and John Locke.

Second, because it increased the money supply, it increased inflationary pressures, a fact observed by David Hume in the 18th century.

David Hume highlighted this problem of induction and argued that causal relations were not true a priori.

David Hume and later Paul Edwards have invoked a similar principle in their criticisms of the cosmological argument.

Conservatives typically see Richard Hooker as the founding father of conservatism, the Marquess of Halifax as important for his pragmatism, David Hume articulated conservative mistrust of rationalism in politics, and Edmund Burke was the leading early theorist.

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

However there was no consistency in Whig ideology, and diverse writers including John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke were all influential among Whigs, although none of them was universally accepted.

" David Hume claims that the philosophers who argue for a self that can be found using reason are confusing " similarity " with " identity ".

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.

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

David Hume, originally David Home, son of Joseph Home of Chirnside, advocate, and Katherine Falconer, was born on 26 April 1711 ( Old Style ) in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.

An engraving of Hume from his The History of England ( David Hume ) | The History of England Vol.

Examples cited are Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi, Daniel and the court official Ashpenaz, and, most famously, David and King Saul's son Jonathan.

David Harris famously confessed, in a roundabout manner, to killing Wood.

David Hilbert defended it from its critics by famously declaring: " No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created.

" Ralph Waldo Emerson famously declared ", " Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist "— a point of view developed at length in both the life and work of ( Henry David ) Thoreau.

* 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, " Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

David Cameron famously used the phrase in a December 2005 speech.

The most notable of these was the sensational article co-authored by David Marr and David Hickie, headlined " Askin: friend of organised crime ", which was famously published on the day of Askin's funeral in 1981.

The idea of substance was famously critiqued by David Hume, who held that since substance is not able to be perceived, it should not be assumed to exist.

These include Netscape's implementation of SSL ( famously cracked by Ian Goldberg and David Wagner in 1995 ) and a Debian / Ubuntu edition of OpenSSL discovered in 2008 to be flawed.

In 1993, she famously appeared on The Late Show with colleague David White, MLA, in a musical skit performing Joan Jett's " I Love Rock ' n ' Roll ".

This tendency to create and strengthen class has resulted in some ( most famously David Harvey ) claiming that neoliberalism is a class project, designed to impose class on society through liberalism.

* David Octavius Hill ( 1802-1870 ), artist and photography pioneer ( famously part of the pair Hill & Adamson ).

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

He has worked extensively as a session and touring musician, most famously with Talking Heads, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Nine Inch Nails.

Red Grooms showed his support of the artist by purchasing one of Ofili's paintings in 1999, even after Giuliani famously exclaimed, “ There ’ s nothing in the First Amendment that supports horrible and disgusting projects !” The painting is now owned by David Walsh and is on display at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania.

Mitchum clashed with Lean, famously saying that " Working with David Lean is like constructing the Taj Mahal out of toothpicks.

The Liverpool sides of the late 1970s to late 1980s were famously notable for numbers of moustachioed players, including Mark Lawrenson, Graeme Souness, Bruce Grobbelaar, Terry McDermott, Ian Rush and David Mc Gurrin.

They were most famously used by Eno during the recording of David Bowie's Berlin triptych of albums ( Low, " Heroes ", Lodger ).

During and after the war, he also wrote several novels under his own name — East of Farewell ( 1942 ), Limit of Darkness ( 1944 ), Stranger in Town ( 1947 ), Bimini Run ( 1949 ) ( with a hero named " Hank Sturgis "), and The Violent Ones ( 1950 ) — and, more famously, several spy and hardboiled novels under an array of pseudonyms, including Robert Dietrich, Gordon Davis and David St. John.

The search for an actress to play Scarlett in the film version of the novel famously drew the biggest names in the history of cinema, such as Bette Davis ( whose casting as a Southern belle in Jezebel in 1938 took her out of contention ), and Katharine Hepburn, who went so far as demanding an appointment with producer David O. Selznick and saying, " I am Scarlett O ' Hara!

Singer David Bowie famously wore a coat worn in the style of Bull.

The author David L. Cohn famously located the Mississippi Delta: it " begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg.