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

Benjamin Franklin in his 1729 essay entitled " A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency " is sometimes credited ( including by Karl Marx ) with originating the concept in its modern form.

It is clear that Whitehead respected these ideas, as may be seen for example in his 1919 book An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge as well as in Process and Reality.

" It implicitly also dismissed the original report of the Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf by recognizing that " there is a need to undertake a scientific review to assess the coca-chewing habit and the drinking of coca tea.

This is testified to not only by a number of treatises on individual subjects of zoology, of which, besides the titles, only fragments remain, but also by his books on Stones, his Enquiry into Plants, and On the Causes of Plants, which have come down to us entire.

* Historia Plantarum ( also called Enquiry into Plants / Inquiry into Plants ) is the name by which is known an ancient Greek survey of botany written by Theophrastus between the 3rd and the 2nd century BC.

In 1798, Count Rumford published An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction, a report on his investigation of the heat produced while manufacturing cannons.

* Why I Am Not a Jew, by David Dvorkin, is a similar essay published in Free Enquiry Magazine explaining the author's transition from Judaism to atheism.

The late 17th century natural philosopher Robert Boyle wrote a seminal work on the distinction between physics and metaphysics called, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature, as well as The Skeptical Chymist, after which the modern science of chemistry is named, ( as distinct from proto-scientific studies of alchemy ).

* Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, publishes An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction.

A Royal Commission is similar in function to a Commission of Enquiry ( or Inquiry ) found in other countries such as Ireland, South Africa, and Hong Kong.

His assertion that the Celts were incapable of assimilating the highest forms of civilization excited " violent disgust ", but the Enquiry was twice reprinted, in 1794 and 1814, and is still of value for the documents embodied in it.

A Board of Trade Enquiry that followed at Margate on the 22 ~ 3 December reported, in the closing pages of the Principal Officers statement that, ‘ There can be little doubt that the Margate boatmen are a bold and adventurous race, who think little of the dangers of the sea when afloat ’ but in the same breath underestimated and insulted their zeal and ability with " but I fear that so long as they use a boat such as the Friend to all Nations it will be hopeless to expect them to wear lifebelts, however much it is desired.

An Enquiry service is available, as well as a Tourist Information Centre, one of three in South East London.

Found on most platforms, there is also the ' Enquiry Processor ', light-blue in colour.

The Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education ( SAPERE ) is a charity that promotes Philosophy for Children as an educational methodology in the UK.

The building's name has become synonymous with the UK Border Agency, and is perceived by the British public as the front line of Britain's immigration service as the main Public Enquiry Office ( PEO ) is based here.

The vast bulk of this testimony was uncorroborated or hearsay evidence obtained during the preceding Court of Enquiry, much of it apparently gathered from disaffected former Carbineers who, if Witton is to be believed, harboured considerable animosity towards Morant and Handcock.

Upon their return to port, there is an awkward Court of Enquiry.

Hume is one of the few early philosophers to offer anything like a sustained account of testimony, this can be found in his ‘ An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ’ in the section on miracles.

HOLMES 2 ( Home Office Large Major Enquiry System ) is an Information Technology system that is predominantly used by UK Police forces for the investigation of major incidents such as serial murders and multi-million pound frauds.

* Alasdair MacIntyre has made an effort to reconstruct a virtue-based theory in dialogue with the problems of modern and postmodern thought ; his works include After Virtue and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry.

It was Aristotle ’ s pupil Theophrastus ( 371 – 287 BCE ) in his Historia Plantarum and De Causis Plantarum ( better known as the Enquiry into Plants ) that established the scientific method of careful and critical observation associated with modern botanical science.

The first modern author to have published a treatise explicitly advocating the absence of government was William Godwin in An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ); though he did not use the word anarchism, some today regard him as the " founder of philosophical anarchism ".

The traditions of ancient skepticism found a new reception in the early modern era climaxing in the 17th century, especially under the influence of the Empiricists ( especially David Hume – see An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – and the following rise of empirical science ) in the discussion of historical doubt: Pyrrhonismus historicus and Fides historica: the " faith " in recorded history.

A more lasting work was his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge ( 1919 ), a pioneering attempt to synthesize the philosophical underpinnings of physics.

It was during his 25 years in Liverpool that he published his first work, Rationale of Religious Enquiry, which caught the attention of many religious and philosophical figures.

The International Society for Philosophical Enquiry ( ISPE ) is a global scientific and philosophical high IQ society founded in 1974.

He later also " cast anew " Book 3 of the Treatise as An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals ( 1751 ), which Hume wrote is " of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best.

The end product of his labours was the Enquiry.

The Enquiry dispensed with much of the material from the Treatise, in favor of clarifying and emphasizing its most important aspects.

The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another.

In the first section of the Enquiry, Hume provides a rough introduction to philosophy as a whole.

Hume insists that the conclusions of the Enquiry will be very powerful if they can be shown to apply to animals and not just humans.

* An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding The Enquiry hosted at infidels. org

His two major works, Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants constitute the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and the Middle Ages, and held that position for some seventeen centuries after they were written.

In Descartes, The Project of Pure Enquiry, Bernard Williams provides a history and full evaluation of this issue.

* B. Williams, Descartes, The Project of Pure Enquiry ( Penguin, 1978 )

From 1746, Hume served for three years as secretary to Lieutenant-General St Clair, and wrote Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, later published as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

The Enquiry proved little more successful than the Treatise.

In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume uses Epicurus as a character for explaining the impossibility of our knowing God to be any greater or better than his creation proves him to be.

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.

Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, British, and United States governments, and in media such as The New York Times newspaper, and by the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry.

* Quiz Forum and Debating Society: The quiz forum and debating societies are two separate societies – Enquiry, the Quiz Club and the JUDS, which have been functioning under one umbrella.

Rowland Hill then received a summons to give evidence before the Commission for Post Office Enquiry on 13 February 1837.

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge.

In 1792, the British Baptist shoemaker William Carey published his missionary tract An Enquiry of the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of Heathens.

Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition.