Summation of Hume's Inquiry Section 5 Section five part one of Hume's An Inquiring Concerning Human Understanding is an opposition of the skeptical philosophy. Hume felt that philosophies that were designed to suspend all judgments or to doubt, such as Foundationalism, confined understanding to very narrow bounds and that these kinds of fences should not be put up; also that there is a principle or a step inside the mind that is not supported by understanding or by any argument. Hume states that this principle is custom or habit. ... In Part two of section five Hume talks about ...

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