David Hume Quotes
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
Topics
Agitation, Agitators
The Brain
Human Thought
Thought Process
Brain Activity
Brain Function
Brain Stimulation
Cognitive Ability
Cognitive Process
Mental Activity
Mental Agitation
Mental Capacity
Mental Exercise
Mental Exploration
Mental Stimulation
Mental Stimuli
Thinking Ability
Thinking Power
cerebral function
Citations
Hume, David. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Edited by Norman Kemp Smith, Bobbs-Merrill, 1947, p. 148.
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David Hume, Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as a British Empiricist.