Hume questioned how we truly know anything
David Hume, an 18th-century philosopher, rocked empiricism by questioning if past experiences reliably predict the future, profoundly influencing how we understand knowledge and causality.
David Hume, an 18th-century Scottish philosopher, profoundly challenged how we understand the world. He agreed that knowledge comes from experience, but then asked a radical question: can we truly trust our experiences to predict the future?
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