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David Hume
David Hume
  • Born: May 7, 1711
  • Died: August 25, 1776
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Philosopher

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.