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.

Although many modern commentators have demurred from Hume's solution, some have notably concurred with it, seeing his analysis of our epistemic predicament as a major contribution to the theory of knowledge.

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 ".

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.

Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit.

In David Hume's History of England, he tells something of the powers that the kings had accumulated in the times after the Magna Carta, the prerogatives of the crown and the sources of great power with which these monarchs counted:

Subject as a key-term in thinking about human consciousness began its career with the German Idealists, in response to David Hume's radical skepticism.

The naturalistic fallacy is related to ( and even confused with ) the is – ought problem, which comes from Hume's Treatise.

Paley adopted a number of Hume's points, although he rejected most ( but not all ) of those aspects of his arguments which were considered to be inconsistent with Christian theology.

The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, following Hume and Johann Georg Hamann, a Humean scholar, agrees with Hume's definition of a miracle as a transgression of a law of nature, but Kierkegaard, writing as his pseudonym Johannes Climacus, regards any historical reports to be less than certain, including historical reports of such miracle transgressions, as all historical knowledge is always doubtful and open to approximation.

Further camellias imported in the East Indiamen were associated with the patrons whose gardeners grew them: a double red for Sir Robert Preston in 1794 and the pale pink named " Lady Hume's Blush " for Amelia, the lady of Sir Abraham Hume of Wormleybury, Hertfordshire ( 1806 ).

Township government was organized in 1860, with the election being held at Hume's store and with Hume being elected the first supervisor.

Hume's empiricist epistemology led him to distrust Malebranche's confidence in discovering abstruse metaphysical truths through an intellectual union with God.

" She ends with a discussion of Hume's implicit sanction of the validity of deduction, which Hume describes as intuitive in a manner analogous to modern foundationalism.

Hume was able to communicate with some aborigines they met early in their journey who consented to act as guides, and later, when the aborigines left them, Sturt speaks with appreciation of Hume's ability in tracking their animals which had strayed.

Hovell published two pamphlets Reply to " A Brief Statement of Facts in Connection with an Overland Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824 ", and an Answer to the Preface to the Second Edition of Mr Hamilton Hume's " A Brief Statement of Facts ", ( for a balanced discussion of the merits of the case see paper by professor Sir Ernest Scott in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.

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.

Their songs and calls are clearly distinct, with Hume's having a more chirping " chwee " call.

Hume's Leaf Warbler overlaps its breeding range with Yellow-browed Warbler in the western Sayan Mountains, but the species apparently do not hybridise.

He was David Hume's physician and friend, and on intimate terms with Adam Smith, Lord Kames ( with whom he discussed theoretical and practical aspects of husbandry ), Joseph Black, John Millar, and Adam Ferguson, among others.

Ignored by many in " critical realist " circles, however, is that Kant's immediate impetus for writing his " Critique of Pure Reason " was to address problems raised by David Hume's skeptical empiricism which, in attacking metaphysics, employed reason and logic to argue against the knowability of the world and common notions of causation.

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 ".

Hume's lasting legacy, however, was the doubt that his skeptical arguments cast on the legitimacy of inductive reasoning, allowing many skeptics who followed to cast similar doubt.

Based partly on Hume's History of England and the ballad cycle of Robin Hood, Ivanhoe was quickly translated into many languages and inspired countless imitations and theatrical adaptations.

Since Hume had already made many of the same " moral attacks upon Christianity " that Paine popularized in The Age of Reason, scholars have concluded that Paine probably read Hume's works on religion or had at least heard about them through the Joseph Johnson circle.

Hume's interest in spirituality brought him into contact with many Indian thinkers.

Other grammars in English followed rapidly: Paul Greaves ' Grammatica Anglicana, 1594 ; Alexander Hume's Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britain Tongue, 1617, and many others.

John Hume's plan to cut the Northern Ireland electricity grid in two and rely on the power generated by Coolkeeragh Power Station ( where many Catholics worked ) to keep Derry and environs in business while undermining the unionist strikers in the east was rejected by the British Secretary of State Merlyn Rees.

Hume's retirement led to many questioning whether Mark Durkan, Hume's successor as leader, could hold onto the seat.

The Desert Whitethroat migrates south to the Arabian Peninsula, southern Pakistan and northwestern India in the winter, where it does overlap with wintering Lesser Whitethroat in many areas, and more locally with wintering Hume's Whitethroat.

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.

Hume's coverage of the political upheavals of the 17th century relied in large part on the Earl of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England ( 1646-69 ).

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 ).

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.

David Hume's statements on ethics foreshadowed those of 20th century emotivists.

In the early 19th century some Whig historians came to incorporate Hume's views, dominant for the previous fifty years.

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 ).

The expression of causal necessity is a " projection " of the functional change onto the objects involved in the causal connection: in Hume's words, " nothing is more usual than to apply to external bodies every internal sensation which they occasion.

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

He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.

On that day they came to a large river which Hovell called Hume's River " he being the first that saw it ".

While the Eastern and Western Hume's Leaf Warblers already show noticeable differences in mtDNA sequence and calls, their songs do not differ ; they are reproductively isolated only by allopatry and not usually considered separate species.

In David Hume's studies of contempt, he suggests that contempt essentially requires apprehending the “ bad qualities ” of someone “ as they really are ” while simultaneously making a comparison between this person and ourselves.

Humeans or Neo-Humeans do not typically hold strictly to Hume's views because, for one thing, they do not think of the passions in the same way that Hume did.