Hume's anti-rationalism informed much of his theory of belief and knowledge, in his treatment of the notions of induction, causation, and the external world.

Another interpretation of Hume's view of the self has been argued for by James Giles.

Though a metaphor, it has been argued that this intuitive way of understanding Hume's theory that desires are necessary for motivation " captures something quite deep in our thought about their nature ".

Hume's theory of ethics has been influential in modern day metaethical theory, helping to inspire various forms of emotivism, error theory and ethical expressivism and non-cognitivism and Allan Gibbard

Hume himself was uncomfortable with the terms deist and atheist, and Hume scholar Paul Russell has argued that the best and safest term for Hume's views is irreligion.

The Scottish Law Commission, in its Discussion Paper No 122 on Insanity and Diminished Responsibility ( 2003 ), pp. 16 / 18 confirms that the law has not substantially changed from the position stated in Hume's Commentaries:

The Ground Tit ( Pseudopodoces humilis ), previously Hume's Ground Jay, has changed its placement within the Passeriformes recently because of molecular and osteological testing.

The only real possibility of confusion is with the similar-looking Hume's Leaf Warbler ( P. humei ), which in the limited area of overlap has duller colours, a faint second wing bar and dark legs and lower mandible.

The suggestion has therefore been made that Hume's Principle ought better be called " Cantor's Principle ".

The Lesser Whitethroat complex has been split up into the present species, Hume's Whitethroat, and the Small Whitethroat from which the Margelanic Whitethroat may also be specifically distinct.

The question, prompted by Hume's small paragraph, has become one of the central questions of ethical theory, and Hume is usually assigned the position that such a derivation is impossible.

This complete severing of " is " from " ought " has been given the graphic designation of Hume's Guillotine.

The club has approximately 100 members, either playing or social, and fields the City of Hume's only open age Women's team.

Another alternative perspective, promoted by David Hume's 18th-century opponent, Presbyterian philosopher Thomas Reid, and perhaps hinted at by Hume himself, at least in some moods ( though this is a very controversial issue in interpreting Hume ), has it that some of our " natural " beliefs — beliefs we are led to form by natural features of the human constitution — have what can be called an " innocent-until-proven-guilty " status.

He has been called ' the German Hume ', on the basis of a comparison of his major work Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwickelung ( 1777 ) with David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.

Paine would have been particularly drawn to Hume's description of religion as " a positive source of harm to society " that " led men to be factious, ambitious and intolerant ".

Newton's claims in this regard had already been attacked by critical proof-analyses of the German logician Leibniz and then most famously by Immanuel Kant, following Hume's logical critique of induction.

Birds breeding in the Caucasus Mountains and northwestern Iran have sometimes been considered intermediate between Lesser and Hume's Whitethroats, but are now more clearly assigned to Lesser Whitethroat, as the subspecies Sylvia curruca caucasica or even not separated from typical European S. c. curruca.

In his Observations on Man, published in 1749 ( 11 years after Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature and one year after the better known An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding ), opened the path for all the investigations of like nature that have been so characteristic of English psychology.

Hume's Bundle theory is a very similar concept to the Buddhist skandhas, though his denial of causation lead him to opposite conclusions in other areas.

Since the bundle-theory interpretation portrays Hume as answering an ontological question, philosophers who see Hume as not very concerned with such questions have queried whether the view is really Hume's, or " only a decoy ".

Furthermore, some writers maintain that Hume's writings on religion were not very influential at the time that they were published.

Immanuel Kant started as a traditional rationalist, having studied the rationalists Leibniz and Wolff, but after studying David Hume's works, which " awoke from dogmatic slumbers ", he developed a distinctive and very influential rationalism of his own, which attempted to synthesize the traditional rationalist and empiricist traditions.

Hume's experience proved to be very useful.

In the meantime, Northern Ireland's Nationalist Party ( a very different entity from the pre-partition Nationalist Party ) began to be seen as an irrelevance, and was replaced as the majority voice of moderate nationalism by John Hume's Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) in the 1970s.

Hume's comment on the illustration The plate is a cruel caricature of the species, just sufficiently like to permit of identification, but miscolored to a degree only explicable on the hypothesis of somebody's colour-blindness … Fortunately for our supporters, this is the very worst plate in the three volumes.

Other resources include a very good library originally containing Hume's own books.

: David Hume's criticisms of the Argument from Design include the argument that, for all we know, a committee of very powerful, but not omnipotent, divine beings could have collaborated in creating the world, but then afterwards left it alone or even ceased to exist.

The History sold well and was influential for nearly a century when it was superseded by Goldsmith's history ( which itself was partly plagiarized from Hume's ).

John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ), George Berkeley's Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ( 1710 ), and David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739 – 1740 ) were particularly influential, as were David Hartley's Observations on Man ( 1749 ) and John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic.

He defended John Milton against William Lauder's charge of plagiarism ( 1750 ), and attacked David Hume's rationalism in his Letter on the Criterion of Miracles ( 1754 ); he went on to criticise the followers of John Hutchinson in his Apology for the Clergy ( 1755 ).

Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

Hume's ideas about human nature expressed in the Treatise suggest that he would be happy with neither Hobbes's nor his contemporary Rousseau's thought-experiments.

Although many scholars today consider the Treatise to be Hume's most important work and one of the most important books in Western philosophy, the critics in Great Britain at the time did not agree, describing it as " abstract and unintelligible ".

Because " Hume's plan is to extend to philosophy in general the methodological limitations of Newtonian physics ", Hume is characterised as an empiricist.

Hume's arguments were only accepted gradually by the reading public, and his philosophical works sold poorly until agnostics like T H Huxley championed Hume's philosophy in the 19th century.

The connection is now standard, but it must be remembered ( as in the following ) that what is meant is a connection between Hume's philosophy and what is nowadays called " induction ," not what went by that name in Hume's day.

These works were not published until after his death, but Green's views were previously known indirectly through the Introduction to the standard edition of Hume's works by Green and T. H. Grose, fellow of Queen's College, in which the doctrine of the " English " or " empirical " philosophy was exhaustively examined.

In philosophy, Hume's fork may be used to refer to one of several distinctions and dilemmas drawn by David Hume ( though which distinction is a matter of some disagreement ).

The science of man ( or the science of human nature ) is a topic in David Hume's 18th century experimental philosophy A Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739 ).

Although many scholars today consider the Treatise to be Hume's most important work and one of the most important books in the history of philosophy, the public in Britain did not at first agree.

It follows that, in Hume's moral philosophy, there is no room for eternal and immutable standards in morality.