| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Hume, David |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  hy m |
| DATES: | 1711–1776 |
| Scottish philosopher and historian whose skeptical arguments concerning induction, causation and religion, including the thesis that human knowledge arises only from sense experience, shaped 19th- and 20th-century empiricist philosophy. His works include A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740) and History of England (1754–1762).
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