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David Hume - Part 3: The Mechanics of Everyday Doubt
After Hume’s central idea has swept away metaphysical guarantees, what remains is human nature itself—messy, habitual, and inventive. If you start not from certainty, but from what actually happens in the mind, how far can you build? Hume’s answer is a system built from experience, not deduction—a new way to map the mind’s workings. The Treatise of Human Nature, published between seventeen thirty-nine and seventeen forty, set out this experiment.
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