David Hume ~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as we know it is

Can anyone help me track down a remark from Hume? When I first read Hume, I remember either the book or a section ending with a sceptical critique of our notion of self ... in effect that it was impossible to make this track with any reliability. After observing this, Hume remarked (or so I recall) that he did not know what kind of philosophy was possible in the light of this conclusion. However, I ...

Here's a brief sample of David Hume's skeptical approach to causality: "All events seem entirely loose and separate. One event follows another; but we never can observe any tie between them. They seem conjoined but never connected. And as we can have no idea of anything, which never appears to our outward sense or inward sentiment, the necessary ...

David Brooks seems to be having a hard time lately; he isn't wedded to the Glenn-Beck, Sarah-Palin style of, er, conservatism. He tends more toward another David, Hume. But Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are what the Republicans seem to like right now. So our poor David has been rattling back and forth between ideas, and nobody in the Republican Party seems to be listening. I ...

David Jerome popped in after his TV event and signed his book Roastbeef's Promise: When Your Dad's Dying Wish Is to Have His Ashes Sprinkled in Each State, What's a Son to Do?($24 Signed First) When Jim "Roastbeef" Hume embarks on a quest to sprinkle his father's ashes in each of the forty-eight contiguous states, he has no idea that a ...

... some believe they never happen. Sceptics tend to quote philosopher David Hume, who argued that if someone tells us about an apparent miracle (an event that ... it doesn't show that miracles cannot or do not occur, only that we cannot ever have sufficient reasons to believe they have - which is very different. Hume's argument is assumed by some to have ended the matter, but philosophers are ...