Excerpt from Hume It was in 1619, while meditating in solitary winter quarters, that Descartes (being about the same age as Hume when he wrote the Treatise on Human Nature made that famous resolution, to take nothing for truth without clear knowledge that it is such, the great practical effect of which is the sanctification of doubt; the recognition that the profession of belief in propositions, of the truth of which there is no sufficient evidence, is immoral the discrowning of authority as such; the repudi ation of the ...
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Excerpt from Hume It was in 1619, while meditating in solitary winter quarters, that Descartes (being about the same age as Hume when he wrote the Treatise on Human Nature made that famous resolution, to take nothing for truth without clear knowledge that it is such, the great practical effect of which is the sanctification of doubt; the recognition that the profession of belief in propositions, of the truth of which there is no sufficient evidence, is immoral the discrowning of authority as such; the repudi ation of the confusion, beloved of sophists of all sorts, between free assent and mere piously gagged dissent; and the admission of the obligation to reconsider even one's axioms on due demand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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