"If we take in hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it concern any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry or illusion." -- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Works of David Hume On-line
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [Text at Wiretap] [Html from the Hume Archives]
- A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh [Text at utm.edu] [Html from the Hume Archives]
- The Natural History of Religion [Text at utm.edu] [Html from the Hume Archives]
- Essays On Suicide and Immortality [Html from the Hume Archives]
- A Treatise of Human Nature (Book I) [Html from the Hume Archives]
- Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion [Text at utm.edu] [Html from the Hume Archives]
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