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		An artist must be better qualified to succeed in this undertaking, who, besides a delicate taste and a quick apprehension, possesses an accurate knowledge of the internal fabric, the operations of the understanding, the workings of the passions, and the various species of sentiment which discriminate vice and virtue.
		The truth is, an unexperienced reasoner could be no reasoner at all, were he absolutely unexperienced; and when we assign that character to any one, we mean it only in a comparative sense, and suppose him possessed of experience, in a smaller and more imperfect degree.
		When we consider the unknown circumstance of an object, by which the degree or quantity of its effect is fixed and determined, we call that its power: And accordingly, it is allowed by all philosophers, that the effect is the measure of the power.
	www.ecn.bris.ac.uk /het/hume/enquiry (20203 words)

	Philosophy- Squashed Hume- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Condensed Abridged
		An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding appeared in 1751, an acknowledgement by Mr Hume that the simpler, shorter version is the better for actually getting humans to understand things, an idea with which we heartily concur.
		Let an object be presented to a man of ever so strong natural reason; if that object be entirely new to him, he will not be able, by the most accurate examination of its sensible qualities to discover any of its causes or effects.
		Sight or feeling conveys an idea of the motion of bodies, but as to the wonderful force which carries a moving body forever in a continued change of place and which bodies never loose but by communicating it to others, we cannot form even the most distant conception.
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	AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING by DAVID HUME
		An artist must be better qualified to succeed in this undertaking, who, besides a delicate taste and a quick apprehension, possesses an accurate knowledge of the in- ternal fabric, the operations of the understanding, the workings of the passions, and the various species of senti- ment which discriminate vice and virtue.
		The truth is, an unexperienced reasoner could be no reasoner at all, were he absolutely unexperienced; and when we assign that character to any one, we mean it only in a compara- tive sense, and suppose him possessed of experience, in a smaller and more imperfect degree.
		It is true, if men attempt the discussion of questions which lie entirely beyond the reach of human capacity, such as those concerning the origin of worlds, or the economy of the intellectual system or region of spirits, they may long beat the air in their fruitless contests, and never arrive at any determinate conclusion.
	www.lancs.ac.uk /users/philosophy/texts/hume_a.htm (20209 words)

	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by philosopher David Hume, published in 1748.
		This is the book that woke Immanuel Kant from his self-described "dogmatic slumber".
		It was a simplification of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London 1739–40.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding (246 words)

	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts)
		In it he gives an elegant and accessible presentation of strikingly original and challenging views about the limited powers of human understanding, the attractions of skepticism, the compatibility of free will and determinism, and weaknesses in the foundations of religion.
		In this volume, an authoritative new version of the text is enhanced by detailed explanatory notes, a glossary of terms, a full list of references, and a section of supplementary readings.
		Extracted from: Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding, and Concerning the Principles of Morals, By David Hume.
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		He gives an elegant and accessible presentation of strikingly original and challenging views about the limited powers of human understanding, the attractions of scepticism, the compatibility of free will and determinism, and weaknesses in the foundations of religion.
		Definitely a far more mature work than his Treatise on Human Nature (of which the reading I nevertheless do recommend), its principal qualities are its rigor of structure, the solidity of its arguments and the eloquent style through which Hume captivates the reader in such a way that the density of content is hardly perceptible.
		Sections six to nine also deal with Hume's conception of learning and human knowledge, but this part differs from the previous one (sections two to five) in that it no longer consists on an explanation of the process of acquisition of knowledge, but rather of the consequences of this process.
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		All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, relations of ideas, and matters of fact.
		All reasonings concerning matter of fact seem to be founded on the relation of cause and effect.
		It is allowed on all hands that there is no known connection between the sensible qualities and the secret powers; and consequently, that the mind is not led to form such a conclusion concerning their constant and regular conjunction, by anything which it knows of their nature.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/hume.htm (3957 words)

	Hume: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
		SECTION IV ALL the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact.
		The academics always talk of doubt and suspense of judgment, of danger in hasty determinations, of confining to very narrow bounds the enquiries of the understanding, and of renouncing all speculations which lie not within the limits of common life and practice.
		On the contrary, that great philosopher had recourse to an etherial active fluid to explain his universal attraction; though he was so cautious and modest as to allow, that it was a mere hypothesis, no to be insisted on, without more experiments.
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	David Hume Collection at Bartleby.com
		The mere philosopher is a character, which is commonly but little acceptable in the world, as being supposed to contribute nothing either to the advantage or pleasure of society.
		Educated at Edinburgh, he lived (1734–37) in France, where he finished his first philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40).
		His other philosophical works include An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748; a simplified version of the first book of the Treatise), An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
	www.bartleby.com /people/Hume-Dav.html (177 words)

	Hume, David. 1909-14. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Vol. 37, Part 3. The Harvard Classics
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Nonfiction > Harvard Classics > David Hume > An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
		If we reason a priori, anything may appear able to produce anything.
		Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding
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	An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding.
		pleasures, which are bestowed on the human race.
		Is it not proper to draw an opposite conclusion, and
		understanding, it may at last be happily achieved; if not, it may,
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