David Hume is considered one of the greatest Western philosophers to ever live and was one of the most influential of the British empiricists. ... In the book, Hume introduces some of his most revolutionary and groundbreaking theories, and these theories help him define and explain how the human brain works. ... I believe that these tools are some of Hume's greatest contributions because without them it would be incredibly difficult for us to understand what Hume is trying to prove. ... Let us take a closer look at Hume's three tools of philosophy. ... In Hume's "A Treat...

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• Grade Level: High School

David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, was a bundle theorist who believed that the self is nothing but experiences or "perceptions" connected by the relations of causation and similarity. ... " He defines a man's self" as the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank account." ...

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John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. ... Since the second man usually works on buildings about thirty stories high, he thinks that the building is fairly short. ...

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John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. ... Since the second man usually works on buildings about thirty stories high, he thinks that the building is fairly short. ...

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