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Hume and reinforced
John S. Eastwood ( 1857, Minnesota – 1924, California ) was an American engineer who built the world's first reinforced concrete multiple-arch dam on bedrock foundation at Hume Lake, California, in 1908.
Hume Lake Dam, completed 1909, displaying its reinforced concrete 50-foot ( 15 m )- span arches resting on inclined vertical buttresses

Hume and with
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.
Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.
Hume accepts that ideas may be either the product of mere sensation, or of the imagination working in conjunction with sensation.
( 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.
Here Hume tackles the problem of how liberty may be reconciled with metaphysical necessity ( otherwise known as a compatibilist formulation of free will ).
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.
Hume offers his friend an objection: if we see an unfinished building, then can't we infer that it has been created by humans with certain intentions, and that it will be finished in the future?
" 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.
Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others as a British Empiricist.
Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739 ), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic " science of man " that examined the psychological basis of human nature.
Kant credited Hume with waking him up from his " dogmatic slumbers " and Hume has proved extremely influential on subsequent philosophy, especially on utilitarianism, logical positivism, William James, philosophy of science, early analytic philosophy, cognitive philosophy, and other movements and thinkers.
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.
Despite the disappointment, Hume later wrote, " Being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, I soon recovered from the blow and prosecuted with great ardour my studies in the country ".
But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.
Hume was charged with heresy, but he was defended by his young clerical friends, who argued that — as an atheist — he was outside the Church's jurisdiction.
In it, Hume presented political person as a creature of habit, with a disposition to submit quietly to established government unless confronted by uncertain circumstances.
The perception of Hume as an atheist with an axe to grind is an oversimplification and contrasts his views on extremist positioning.
( A popular story, consistent with some historical evidence, suggests the street was named after Hume.
Hume asked that he be interred in a " simple roman tomb "; in his will he requests that it be inscribed only with his name and the year of his birth and death, " leaving it to Posterity to add the Rest.
Few philosophers are as associated with induction as David Hume ; but Hume himself rarely used the term and when he did, he used it to support a point he was arguing.

Hume and soldiers
It consisted of Sturt, his servant Joseph Harris, two soldiers and eight convicts ; on 27 November Sturt was joined by Hamilton Hume as his first assistant.

Hume and joined
When his brother Samuel Hume Blake joined soon thereafter, it was Blake & Blake and today the firm is known as Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
The rest of the main cast included Robert Walden and Linda Kelsey, who played general-assignment reporters Joe Rossi and Billie Newman, respectively ( Kelsey joined the show in the fourth episode, replacing Rebecca Balding, who had portrayed reporter Carla Mardigian during the show's first three episodes ); Mason Adams, who played managing editor Charles Hume, an old friend of Lou's who had convinced him to move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles ; Jack Bannon, who played assistant city editor Art Donovan ; Daryl Anderson, who played photographer Dennis Price, usually referred to as " Animal "; and Nancy Marchand, who played the widowed, patrician publisher, Margaret Pynchon, a character loosely based on real life newspaper publishers Dorothy Chandler of the Los Angeles Times and Katharine Graham of The Washington Post.
James B. Hume had an impressive record as a California and Nevada lawman before he joined the Wells Fargo freight company in 1873.

Hume and up
Anderson and his associate Brit Hume confirmed that Capp was shown out of town by university police, but that the incident had been hushed up by the university to avoid negative publicity.
Hume made a philosophical discovery that opened up to him "... a new Scene of Thought ," which inspired him "... to throw up every other Pleasure or Business to apply entirely to it.
Hume and Papazian ended up selecting Lawrence, due to the access to a number of good locations: a university, a hospital, football and basketball venues, farms, beautiful countryside.
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.
The charges were reiterated by FrontPage Magazine and the allegation concerning Williams receiving UN cash was picked up by Brit Hume and the Fox News Channel.
Hume was up against Michael Collins, Bono,
Hume challenges other philosophers to come up with a ( deductive ) reason for the connection.
David Hume summed up his admiration for Douglas by saying that his friend possessed " the true theatric genius of Shakespeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one and licentiousness of the other.
Both were helped considerably by the initiative of John Hume, and the understanding built up between Reynolds, and British Prime Minister John Major.
These occasionalists ' negative argument, that no necessary connections could be discovered between mundane events, were echoed by certain arguments of Nicholas of Autrecourt in the fourteenth century, and were later taken up by David Hume in the eighteenth.
Hume employed William Ruxton Davison as a curator of his personal bird collection and also sent him out on collection trips to various parts of India, when he was held up with official responsibilities.
Hume built up a network of ornithologists reporting from various parts of India.
Hume took up a great interest in horticulture while at Shimla.
In the years leading up to the establishment of the Institute, Hume built up links with many of the leading botanists of his day.
This idea, to be taken up by David Hume ( see Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature ), claimed that man is pleased by utility.
( Hume, 2002, 251 ) Contempt for a person involves a way of negatively and comparatively regarding or attending to someone who has not fully lived up to an interpersonal standard that the person extending contempt thinks is important.
Further, other philosophers like David Hume, René Descartes and John Locke are often held up as early models of philosophers who appealed to empirical methodology.
Hume set up the " British Committee of Indian National Congress " to oversee the Indian Agency's work.
The transmitter and studios were set up in the Hume family mansion, Peltonga, on Greenhill Road, in the suburb of Parkside, South Australia.
By this critical scepticism Maimon takes up a position intermediate between Kant and Hume.

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