1711–1776 · Scotland
David Hume
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
Their life
The good-natured skeptic of the Scottish Enlightenment: he showed that custom, not reason, rules most of life, that causation is inference not observation — and remained the most cheerful dinner guest in Edinburgh while dismantling philosophy's certainties.
Books by David
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