David Hume#David
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#David
David Hume · 1711–1776
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Who this is
“The cheerful fat man of Edinburgh quietly dismantled more of Western thought's load-bearing walls than anyone before or since — and died laughing.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Reason is far weaker than we think — custom, feeling, and habit carry the load — and when you actually audit our most basic beliefs (cause and effect, the self, the future resembling the past), the receipts aren't there.”
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