Concerning one of these, proportion in quantity or number, Hume argues that our reasoning about proportion in quantity, as represented by geometry, can never achieve " perfect precision and exactness ", since its principles are derived from sense-appearance.

He succeeded John Hume, also of the SDLP, who had represented the seat since 1983.

Bradley rejected the utilitarian and empiricist trends in English philosophy represented by John Locke, David Hume, and John Stuart Mill.

Sunbury is represented by Cr Ann Potter and Cr Jack Ogilvie for the City of Hume, the Electoral district of Macedon, represented by Ms Joanne Duncan MP, and the Federal Seat of Calwell, represented by Ms Maria Vamvakinou MHR.

LaRouche states that many of the world's ills are due to the fact that Aristotelianism, as embraced by British philosophers like Locke, Hume, Hobbes, Bentham and represented by " oligarchs ", foremost among them wealthy British families, has dominated, leading to a culture that favors the empirical over the metaphysical, embraces moral relativism, and seeks to keep the general population uninformed.

To account for the fact of synthesis in cognition, in express opposition to associationism, as represented by Hume, was, in truth, his prime object, starting, as he did, from the assumption that there was in knowledge that which no mere association of experiences could explain.

Currently, the ward is represented by Peter Hume.

After his house in Môtiers was stoned on the night of 6 September 1765, Rousseau took refuge in Great Britain with Hume, who found lodgings for him at a friend's country estate in Wootton in Staffordshire.

His government also carried out road improvements, including paving much of the Hume Highway and the Great Western Highway.

More laughter was generated on such shows as Abbott and Costello, Amos ' n ' Andy, Burns and Allen, Easy Aces, Ethel and Albert, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Goldbergs, The Great Gildersleeve, The Halls of Ivy ( which featured screen star Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume ), Meet Corliss Archer, Meet Millie, and Our Miss Brooks.

In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI made Hume a Knight Commander of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great.

* Robert M. Burns ( 1981 ), The Great Debate on Miracles: From Joseph Glanvill to David Hume

The route taken by the Hume Highway to climb from the coast to the Southern Tablelands and thence across the Great Divide is situated between the parallel river gorge systems of the Wollondilly and Shoalhaven Rivers.

Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of a road, which became known as the Great South Road ( the basis of the northern end of the Hume Highway ) in 1819 from Picton to the Goulburn Plains and he travelled to Goulburn in 1820, but it is unlikely that even a primitive road was finished at that time.

Until it was named the Hume Highway in 1928 it was known as the " Great South Road " in NSW and " Sydney Road " in Victoria.

The first 35 km of the highway was known as Liverpool Road until August 1928, when it was renamed as part of the Hume or Great Southern Highway, as part of the creation of the NSW highway system.

Hume and Hovell tried again to breach the Great Divide and finally succeeded at Pretty Sally.

When the national route numbering system was introduced in 1954, the full length of the Great Western Highway was designated as part of national route 32 ( Sydney-Adelaide via Dubbo and Broken Hill ), with the section from City Road to the Hume Highway ( Liverpool Road ) Summer Hill also being part of national route 31.

When the M5 East was completed, the Metroad 5 designation was assigned to the freeway ; those parts of the highways ( both Great Western / Hume Highway ) which had been part of Metroad 5 were now given over to a logical continuation of State Route 31 east beyond Metroad 3, from Centenary Drive into the city.

Olympic Highway offers an alternative route from Albury to Sydney as it links Hume Highway to Mid-Western Highway and Great Western Highway via Bathurst.

Road access to town is via the Great Alpine Road connecting to the Melbourne to Sydney Hume Freeway about to the northwest or to the north or through the Murray Valley Highway to the northeast, Canberra and the east coast, or along the continuation of the Great Alpine Highway to the southeast of the state.

Noël Hume was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain in 1993 and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( O. B. E.

This tradition was prominent in the intellectual life of 16th-century Italy, as well as seventeenth-and 18th-century Britain and America ; indeed the term " virtue " appears frequently in the work of Niccolò Machiavelli, David Hume, the republicans of the English Civil War period, the 18th-century English Whigs, and the prominent figures among the Scottish Enlightenment and the American Founding Fathers.

Disappointed by the continued lack of Indian leaders willing to work for the cause of national emancipation, Hume left for Britain in 1894.

His thought moved beyond the modern tradition begun by Descartes and continued in Britain by Locke, Berkeley and Hume.

* Rob Hume ( 2011 ), RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe, Dorling Kindersley, 3rd edition (+ CD ) edition

But at the touch of Hume and Voltaire the noble or hideous visitations which had haunted the mind since Agamemnon's blood cried out for vengeance, disappeared altogether or took tawdry refuge among the gaslights of melodrama.

According to Hume, the creative faculty makes use of ( at least ) four mental operations which produce imaginings out of sense-impressions.

( Hume 1974: 322 ) In explaining how matters of fact are entirely a product of experience, he dismisses the notion that they may be arrived at through a priori reasoning.

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.

Throughout his life Hume, who never married, spent time occasionally at his family home at Ninewells by Chirnside, Berwickshire, which had belonged to his family since the sixteenth century.

Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at the unusually early age of twelve ( possibly as young as ten ) at a time when fourteen was normal.

After the publication of Essays Moral and Political in 1744, Hume applied for the Chair of Pneumatics and Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Despite his acquittal, Hume failed to gain the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

It is likely that Hume was sceptical both about religious belief ( at least as demanded by the religious organisations of his time ) and of the complete atheism promoted by such contemporaries as Baron d ' Holbach.

Hume argued that it requires inductive reasoning to arrive at the premises for the principle of inductive reasoning, and therefore the justification for inductive reasoning is a circular argument.

Education in the Arts became a vehicle for the study of humanitarian philosophers like David Hume at that time.

Rousseau's letter to Hume, in which he articulates the perceived misconduct, sparked an exchange which was published in Paris and received with great interest at the time.

These are Lake Hume near Albury-Wodonga ( completed 1936 ), Lake Mulwala at Yarrawonga ( completed 1939 ) and Lake Dartmouth, which is actually on the Mitta Mitta River upstream of Lake Hume ( completed 1979 ).

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.

It has however also become common, already since David Hume, and more recently since the writings of Freud, to describe reason as actually being a slave to the passions, or at best an arbiter of conflicting desires, rather than their natural monarch.

Another version of this tale has the skeleton discovered at Hume a few years after the battle and re-interred at Holyrood Abbey.

Worried by this renewed French interest in the area and encouraged by Hume and Hovell ’ s reports, Governor Darling ordered a settlement to be established at Western Port.

Though their parties are often at loggerheads, Hume and Paisley worked jointly on behalf of Northern Ireland in the European Parliament and on occasion worked jointly in the British House of Commons.

David Hume and Adam Smith at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Among his friends at Edinburgh were the philosophers Adam Ferguson and David Hume and the artist Paul Sandby whom he met in the Highlands.