Badania dotyczące rozumu ludzkiego

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Hume recast the first book of his Treatise in shorter, more elegant form; it appeared in 1748 as “Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding” and received its present title in 1758. Its twelve sections leave out much of the Treatise, such as the theory of personal identity, and add new topics: section X, “Of Miracles”, argues that testimony can hardly ever make a miracle credible, which caused a scandal. The book ends with the advice to burn any volume of divinity or metaphysics that contains neither reasoning about quantity nor about matters of fact. Kant, who did not read English, could know it in a German translation of 1755; it was Hume, he later wrote, who interrupted his “dogmatic slumber”.

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• Traktat o naturze ludzkiej1739 · David Hume

Podjęte w

• Language, Truth and Logic1936 · Alfred Jules Ayer

Odpowiedź w

• Krytyka czystego rozumu1781 · Immanuel Kant
• Logika odkrycia naukowego1934 · Karl Popper

Krytykowane w

• An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect (Esej o relacji przyczyny i skutku)1824 · Mary Shepherd

Więcej dzieł: David Hume

• 1739Traktat o naturze ludzkiej
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