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(Thursday)
Died
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Languages
English
Parents
Joseph Hume, 10th of Ninewells, Katherine Falconer
Education
University of Edinburgh
Zodiac Sign
♉ Taurus
Chinese Zodiac
兔 Rabbit
Name Origin
English < Biblical Hebrew (דּוד)
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Year of the Rabbit, sign of Taurus
Biography
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume followed John Locke in rejecting the existence of innate ideas, concluding that all human knowledge derives solely from experience; this places him amongst such empiricists as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Locke and George Berkeley.
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