However, Hume admits that there is one objection to his account: the problem of " The Missing Shade of Blue ".

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.

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

Hume told him he sincerely believed it a " most unreasonable fancy " that there might be life after death.

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.

The pragmatist may go on, as David Hume did on the topic induction, that there is no satisfying alternative to granting this premise.

Hume took it in an especially skeptical direction, proposing that there could be no possibility of deducing relationships of cause and effect, and therefore no knowledge is based on reasoning alone, even if it seems otherwise.

In A Treatise of Human Nature Hume pointed out there is no obvious way for a series of statements about what ought to be the case to be derived from a series of statements of what is the case.

The shortage of good pasture in Van Diemen's Land led to settlers there showing interest in the country across Bass Strait, following Hume and Hovell ’ s reports and stories of visiting sealers.

Native Americans are thought to have buried their dead in a mound structure approximately 1 mile north of Hume, although there is no evidence to support this claim.

Allan Octavian Hume noted based on the observation of " hundreds of nests " that they always nested on large trees near habitations even when there were convenient cliffs in the vicinity.

Speaking about his work in 2011, Hume said, ' Where I live in New York, there ’ s a wood.

Although ( other than the in-progress Holbrook bypass ) the full length of the Hume Highway is dual carriageway ( with at-grade intersections and restricted entry from adjoining land ), there are considerable lengths of the highway which are of full freeway standard.

Hume there sets out seven fundamental relations between ideas.

The credit Frege tries to give to Hume is therefore probably not deserved, and Hume certainly would have rejected at least some of the consequences Frege draws from HP, in particular, the consequence that there are infinite sets.

Apart from Hume and Hovell, there were six convict members of the expedition.

Twenty-two years later, in 1825, James Meehan, who had accompanied John Murray in exploring Port Phillip Bay 18 month earlier, was to tell Hume that there were no large islands in Port Phillip, and that therefore had reached Port Phillip, not Western Port as Hovell had insisted.

However, Hume found that there seems to be a significant difference between descriptive statements ( about what is ) and prescriptive or normative statements ( about what ought to be ), and it is not obvious how we can get from making descriptive statements to prescriptive.

" While some earlier philosophers ( most notably Plato and Descartes ) held that logical statements such as these contained the most formal reality, since they are always true and unchanging, Hume held that, while true, they contain no formal reality, because the truth of the statements rests on the definitions of the words involved, and not on actual things in the world, since there is no such thing as a true triangle or exact equality of length in the world.

The story relates how at a dinner party, Madame Blavatsky asked Mrs Hume if there was anything she wanted.

A short canal between the Shoalhaven and the Crookhaven was convict constructed in the June 1822 by a convict party overseen by Hamilton Hume under the direction of Alexander Berry to facilitate ship transport to the original European settlement there.

... He came to America in 1682 in the ship Caledonia to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, as a young man, and there came on the same ship a Sir James Hume from the same place in Scotland, who was the son of gentry and was well off.

* Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn ; the married couple spent a lot of time on the island also at Goat Cay for many years, and Sigourney Weaver vacationed there with her family.

What Hume calls `` sensation '' is what Whitehead calls `` perception in the mode of presentational immediacy '' which is a sophisticated abstraction from perception in the mode of causal efficacy.

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.

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

According to Hume, the difference between the two is that ideas are less vivacious than impressions.

This seems to pose a serious problem for the empirical account, though Hume brushes it aside as an exceptional case by stating that one may experience a novel idea that itself is derived from combinations of previous impressions.

In the first part, Hume discusses how the objects of inquiry are either " relations of ideas " or " matters of fact ", which is roughly the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions.

( Hume 1974: 330-332 ) Here he is describing what would become known as the problem of induction.

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.

The next topic which Hume strives to give treatment is that of the reliability of human testimony, and of the role that testimony plays a part in epistemology.

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.

There is one final criterion that Hume thinks gives us warrant to doubt any given testimony, and that is f ) if the propositions being communicated are miraculous.

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.

The point is already made by Hume, but see Mary Mothersill, " Beauty and the Critic ’ s Judgment ", in The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, 2004.

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.

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

There is a debate in the historiography, because Hooker lived too early, Halifax did not belong to any party, Hume was not involved in politics, and Burke was a Whig.

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.