Horace Walpole, who gives an unfavourable picture of his private character, acknowledges that Stone possessed " abilities seldom to be matched "; and he had the distinction of being mentioned by David Hume as one of the only two men of mark who had perceived merit in that author's History of England on its first appearance.

Unlike his predecessors, Berkeley and Locke, Hume rejects the idea that volitions or impulses of the will may be inferred to necessarily connect to the actions they produce by way of some sense of the power of the will.

( Hume 1974: 355-356 ) He also argues in brief against the idea that causes are mere occasions of the will of some god ( s ), a view associated with the philosopher Nicolas Malebranche.

True to his empirical thesis, Hume tells the reader that, though testimony does have some force, it is never quite as powerful as the direct evidence of the senses.

One of the earliest accounts relating to a large unknown freshwater animal was in 1818, when Hamilton Hume and James Meehan found some large bones at Lake Bathurst in New South Wales.

( A popular story, consistent with some historical evidence, suggests the street was named after Hume.

James Boswell saw Hume a few weeks before his death ( which was from some form of abdominal cancer ).

However, some philosophers have criticised the bundle-theory interpretation of Hume on personal identity.

In 1739 and 1748, David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the associations and causes of ideas with visual images, in some sense forerunners to the language of film.

Much of what is incorporated in the scientific method ( the nature of knowledge, evidence, experience, and causation ) and some modern attitudes towards the relationship between science and religion were developed by his protégés David Hume and Adam Smith.

* David Hume: Hume criticized the social contract theory of John Locke and others as resting on a myth of some actual agreement.

ABC, Hume and Papazian realized that for the scene depicting the nuclear blast, they would have to use state-of-the-art special effects and they took the first step by hiring some of the best special effects people in the business to draw up some storyboards for the complicated blast scene.

Hume was trained as a lawyer, and Paley was regarded by his peers, some of whom were prominent lawyers themselves, as having one of the most acute legal minds of his age.

Hanging upon the above, Hume says that " where several different objects produce the same effect, it must be by means of some quality, which we discover to be common amongst them.

As pointed out by philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke and Hume, some animals are also clearly capable of a type of " associative thinking ", even to the extent of associating causes and effects.

But Hume regarded some of our sentiments as universal.

According to the philosopher David Hume, a miracle is " a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.

Much of what is incorporated in the scientific method ( the nature of knowledge, evidence, experience, and causation ) and some modern attitudes towards the relationship between science and religion were developed by David Hume.

His report on this subject was ordered to be printed some few months since, on the motion of Mr Hume .”

For Hume himself rarely used the term and when he did, he used it to justify some point he was making.

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.

Hume had a good knowledge of some of the local aboriginal people, was always able to avoid conflicts with them, and appears to have learnt something of their speech.

Defenders of some form of moral skepticism include David Hume, J. L. Mackie ( 1977 ), Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Joyce ( 2001 ), Michael Ruse, Joshua Greene, Richard Garner, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ( 2006b ), and the psychologist James Flynn.

Still, Hume takes care to warn that historians are generally to be trusted with confidence, so long as their reports on facts are extensive and uniform.

Literary historians agree in esteeming him " the greatest of all Restoration fops " ( Dobrée ), " brutal, evil, and smart " ( Hume ).

" This Mitford certainly was not, but his pre-eminence in the little school of English historians who succeeded Hume and Gibbon would be easier to maintain.

These late experimental narratives show Brown exploring the interface of fiction and history at the end of the revolutionary era, at a moment that both follows the great Enlightenment historians ( e. g., David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon ) and prefigures the emergence of the 19th-century historical romance form in writers like Walter Scott or James Fenimore Cooper.

In The History of England ( 1754-1761 ), Hume challenged Whig views of the past and the Whig historians in turn attacked Hume ; but they could not dent his history.

On one account, advanced two hundred years ago by the historians Hume and Arnot, the older distinctively Scottish two verdict system was rooted in religious oppression.

amounts to a statement of the theory, while other economic historians date the discovery later, to figures such as Jean Bodin, David Hume, and John Stuart Mill.

( Hume 1974: 353-354 ) He produces like arguments against the notion that we have knowledge of these powers as they affect the mind alone.

Hume believes that all disputes on the subject have been merely verbal arguments — that is to say, arguments which are based on a lack of prior agreement on definitions.

( Hume 1974: 384 ) He also notes that this " inferential " ability that animals have is not through reason, but custom alone.

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

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.

When asked if he was an atheist, Hume would say he did not have enough faith to believe there was no god.

Historians have debated whether Hume posited a universal unchanging human nature, or allowed for evolution and development.

In the introduction to A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume writes "' Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, more or less, to human nature ...

Induction became associated with Hume only in the early twentieth century ; John Maynard Keynes may have been the first to draw the connection.

Hume held that we have no perceptual access to the necessary connection, hence skepticism, but we are naturally compelled to believe in its objective existence, ergo realism.

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 ".

Instead, it is suggested, Hume might have been answering an epistemological question, about the causal origin of our concept of the self.

It has been suggested that this position can be lucidly brought out through the metaphor of " direction of fit ": beliefs — the paradigmatic products of reason — are propositional attitudes that aim to have their content fit the world ; conversely, desires — or what Hume calls passions, or sentiments — are states that aim to fit the world to their contents.

Perhaps the most prominent figures in the history of philosophy who have rejected moral rationalism are David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche.

As David Hume once wrote, " What interest can a fond mother have in view, who loses her health by assiduous attendance on her sick child, and afterwards languishes and dies of grief, when freed, by its death child's, from the slavery of that attendance ?".

David Hume concluded that things appear extended because they have attributes of colour and solidity.

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.

Earlier in the century David Hume had argued against notions of design with counter examples drawn from monstrosity, imperfect forms of testimony and probability, and it has been assumed that Paley could not have read Hume.

: Whereas David Hume argued that causes are inferred from non-causal observations, Immanuel Kant claimed that people have innate assumptions about causes.