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Project Gutenberg #4705

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

1739

Hume's major work on knowledge, mind, and morality, prepared section by section from Project Gutenberg HTML.

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Section 3 of 106

BOOK I. OF THE UNDERSTANDING

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Chapter 3 — BOOK I. OF THE UNDERSTANDING Central question What can the mind know? Main argument Book I studies the materials and operations of thought. Hume begins with ideas, moves through space, time, and...

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