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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

Hume's mature restatement of his earlier Treatise. Section IV poses the problem of induction in its sharpest form: we have no non-circular ground for expecting the future to resemble the past.

In Res

The problem of induction has not been put down in two and a half centuries. Any theory of knowledge has to deal with section IV one way or another.

Subjects

  • epistemology
  • induction
  • causation
  • scepticism
  • empiricism

Editions

  • 1999

    Paperback

    Oxford University Press· English· 240 pp.

    ISBN-13 9780198752486