Who Is David Hume Empiricism

David Hume was an 18th century Scottish philosopher, who was a key figure in what was known as a Scottish enlightenment. Before Scotland became known for it's achievements in the field of stabbing people it was, for a short time, considered one of the most literate advanced societies in the Western world producing great advanced in the field of philosophy political theory and science Hume was a big fan of John Locke and a large degree of his legacy was concerned with taking Locke's and empiricism and running with it to the ridiculous extreme the big thing for Hume was skepticism, which in philosophy is the epistemological positition that true knowledge is completely unattainable and for all intents and purposes the real world is one is unknowable because empiricism claims that all knowledge comes from the senses, Hume concluded that the only statements that mankind can make about the world are those which place human experience in the absolute center of reality, because human experience is as close we can ever get to the truth. David Hume was somewhat notorious in his time for holding an unpopular and dangerous idea, you may have heard of it. It's called agnosticism. Although he couldn't really come …show more content…
Traditionally we call these properties, they're not the apple itself, but simply the features of the apple is in which the apple projects itself into the world. For Hume's bundle theory, there is no actual apple underneath it all, only the properties exist and he defended this by daring you to imagine an object without properties, strip the apple of its properties and you wind up reducing it to literal non-existence. Some people make the inaccurate mistake of thinking that Hume meant that you don't exist, he did deny self though. He said one exists as a bundle of qualities, that's