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Experience versus faith: Questioning knowledge, reason, and the limits of understanding.
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
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304 pages
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Summary
The Limits of Reason: Exploring Human Understanding
“Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.” Thus ends David Hume’s Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language.
His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the ‘sophistry and illusion’ of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the eighteenth century and are s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199549900 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199549907 |
| Author: | David Hume, Peter Millican |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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David Hume
Peter Millican is founder and director of the Leeds Electronic Text Centre and editor of the journal Hume Studies. He recently edited Reading Hume on Human Understanding (OUP, 2002).
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