David Hume's Materialism

In David Hume’s Of Scepticism With Regard to The Senses, he gives his reasons for believing that we cannot truly accept our existence based on our senses or our knowledge. He states that most of our beliefs come from empirical knowledge, and can be misinterpreted. He then goes on to describe why he believes this is, and how we use this “knowledge” every day without realizing it.
In his example with the senses, he states that our senses are unable to prove the idea of our continued existence. For instance, when we blink, the world around us is completely blocked from our sight for a brief time. Even though we believe that everything stays the same, Hume argues that we cannot definitively prove that everything around us continues to visually