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David Hume - Part 2: The Fragile Foundations of Knowing
Picture a child watching a spark leap from a fire, or a farmer planting seeds with hope that the sun and rain will return. We trust that what has happened will happen again, that cause leads to effect, that the future echoes the past. But what if none of this is guaranteed by reason—only by habit? David Hume’s central insight is usually called skepticism, but that word misses the peculiar force of his challenge.
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