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Great Thinkers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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DavidHume, a member of the well-known Border family of Home, was born on April 26, 1711. After a period of preparatory training he matriculated at Edinburgh College in 1723, although he may have entered earlier. His course during this period is obscure; according to his own statement the curriculum was mainly literary; on leaving College he records that his interests lay predominantly in this direction, and, being left to his own choice, he was able to indulge his inclinations. An attempt to train him for a legal career ended in failure; and he continued to live at his ancestral home of Ninewells, to the west of Berwick, for some years, devoting himself

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1937

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page 400 note 1 E.g. Broad, , Scientific Thought, p. 42.Google Scholar

page 401 note 1 Sect, xii, Pt. ii.

page 401 note 2 Sect, iv, Pt. i.

page 408 note 1 Kant is concerned with validity and links this question with that of origin. But he never discusses the meaning of causation.

page 409 note 1 Professor G. E. Moore in Philosophical Essays considers Hume’s contention weak; it seems valid within the framework of Hume’s doctrine.

page 409 note 2 H. H. Price, Perception.