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My favorite philosophers are Plato , Hume , Nietzsche , and from more recent times Rudolf Carnap and David Lewis . ... and politicians would frequent the salons, and it seems the French philosophical set loved Hume. Still, whether the British were getting a good deal or not, Hume certainly was.

Shoutz go out to David Hume, Johann Schultz, and Joseph Green. ... (a) Anything by Hume , who first awoke me from my dogmatic slumbers.

You like to stay up late arguing about Hume. ... Hume Don DeLillo David Foster Wallace Hesse As far as movies go, Life is Beautiful is my favorite.

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The history of philosophy Test

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Well, why not a test on the history of Philosophy. How much do you really know about the philosophers from ancient times till the 20th century? ...

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I am a philo grad student, and this test measures your knowledge of whatever I can think of (all to do with philosophy of course) ...

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Good Morning, and welcome to my Do you know ClintaX Test. I'll be using advanced logic and knowledge to determine your true knowledge of me - as fa... ...

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I Hate Agnostics

Comment by Rye3d

Still, Hume never said anything as stupid as "nothing can ever be known for sure" as much as he (rightly) dismissed the search for metaphysical truth. If metaphysical truth is your level of "sure", I am sure Hume ... as Hume did as a proper philosopher, they'd fall into solipsism, and though Hume was

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I Hate Agnostics

Comment by Deleriumb32

it's funny that you started off by quoting Hume and using him as your philisophical standard.Have you ever read Hamann?  He read Hume and agreed with him, but said that all Hume did was prove that faith is required to get through life. If Hume posits that nothing can be known for sure

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Why do people stay in a relationship where they are not happy?

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If I'm sooooo crass in thinking it's important to keep promises, then I guess I have David Hume for company! ... )As for David Hume? He can blow me. Hume was awesome as a rationalist and an empiricist; "Science of Man" is a landmark in the development of human thought.

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Rant: Taoists and Cultural/Moral Relativists Can Suck It

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falls back on the fact-value distinction that originates in Hume. According to Hume we have two kinds of statements: matters-of-fact and matters-of-judgment. ... As Hume puts it, "there is a gap between the is and he ought".

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Should evolution and creationism be taught side-by-side in public schools?

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Hume ... Hume also maintains that free acts are not uncaused (or self-caused as Kant argued) but rather caused by our choices as determined by our beliefs, desires, and by our characters. While a decision-making process exists in Hume's determinism, this process

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