PhilosophersDavid Hume

David Hume

Neither causation nor induction can be proved: custom guides us.

Empiricism · Modern skepticism1711 – 1776 United KingdomEmpiricistMitigated scepticCritic of religionHistorian

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Inspirations

Locke empiricism

Francis Bacon the experimental method

Descartes against innate ideas

Heirs

Kant "woken from his dogmatic slumber"

Bertrand Russell empiricism and logic

Auguste Comte keep to facts

Similar and opposite philosophers

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Closest

Aristippe de Cyrène The only good is present pleasure; the past is gone and the future is not yet.

Thomas Henry Huxley He coined the word 'agnostic': not claiming to know what cannot be known.

Willard Van Orman Quine Our statements about the world face experience not one by one but as a corporate body: none is immune from revision.

Carl Sagan Astronomer and science communicator who popularised the demand for solid evidence for extraordinary claims.

Furthest

Tertullien Latin-writing Christian author: Christian faith has no need to pass through philosophy.

Martin Luther Before God, the human will is not free: without grace it wills evil; with grace it wills the good; but it never chooses its master. It is "bound".