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David Hume - Part 1: A World on the Edge of Certainty
Imagine walking into a library where every book is a debate, every shelf a battlefield between old certainties and new doubts. This was the world David Hume inherited—a Scotland newly joined to England, minds electrified by science yet haunted by the ghosts of metaphysical authority. In this world, answers were provisional and certainty was a luxury. The question was no longer just what we can know, but whether knowledge itself could survive the loss of its ancient guarantees.
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