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  • The most important philosopher ever to write in English, David Hume

    David Hume Morris, William Edward 2009

  • Generally regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, David Hume

    unknown title 2009

  • Generally regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, David Hume

    unknown title 2009

  • In support, he recalls David Hume's challenge to show him a single 'Negro' with talents.

    CounterPunch 2010

  • In support, he recalls David Hume's challenge to show him a single 'Negro' with talents.

    CounterPunch 2010

  • In support, he recalls David Hume's challenge to show him a single 'Negro' with talents.

    CounterPunch 2010

  • In support, he recalls David Hume's challenge to show him a single 'Negro' with talents.

    CounterPunch 2010

  • When Marshall Poe states that “Wikipedia is … not an encyclopedia, but a repository of common knowledge,” he forgets that people such as David Hume before him stated that “nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach on the province of grammarians, and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern.”

    What Andrew Keen does not understand « Jahsonic 2008

  • When Marshall Poe states that “Wikipedia is … not an encyclopedia, but a repository of common knowledge,” he forgets that people such as David Hume before him stated that “nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach on the province of grammarians, and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern.”

    13 « April « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

  • Other philosophers, such as David Hume, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill, take an interest in the psychology of moral character that is more reminiscent of the Greeks.

    Moral Character Homiak, Marcia 2007

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