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Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

We never see one thing make another happen; we only learn to expect it. What, then, can we know?

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Volume
33 of the 1990 set
Author
David Hume (1711–1776)
Work
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 1748

Ideas: Doubt and certainty Cause and chance The senses and experience

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