"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" essayist

Usage examples of hume.

Though Hume suffered from Beattie, he was the better for other attacks.

Hume summed up his view in two axioms which he himself described as the alpha and omega of his whole philosophy.

His Roger's Version is expressly about the argument from design, which Hume supposedly disposed of long ago but which keeps cropping up in such newfangled guises as the astrophysicists' Anthropic Principle.

Barry Hume isn't here to receive his bronze medal for reaching the semifinals.

Three violent deaths in about seventy years, against which we can only put the case of Thomas, servant to Hume of Cowden Knowes, who was arraigned with his two young masters for the death of the Bastard of Mellerstanes in 1569.

To keep the upper hand, she then mentioned her meeting with Jacqueline Hume, her new divorce lawyer, dropping the name as if it were a mortar round, then relaying for my benefit the self-serving opinions her mouthpiece had delivered.

O'Hara drives into the quarry to the left of the sixteenth fairway, double-bogeys the hole, and concedes it to Hume, who is on the green in two shots.

But though the name and function of the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee were strange to him, he read Locke, quoted Hume, and explicated Marx.

I have not forgotten Hume and Heriot nor has Lennox, I imagine~ dismissed the events at Dumbarton.

We know now that we owe to you other gifts of money and of secrets over the years, and that we have had ignorantly the use of your talents and your abilities at Hume and at Heriot, at Carlisle and Dumbarton.

Displayed every Sunday night on Keep Those Kiddies Coming, the classic images -- men submitting to sperm siphons, women locked in the rapacious embrace of artificial inseminators haunt every parishioner's imagination, instilling the same levels of dread as Spinelli's sculpture of the archangel Chamuel strangling David Hume.

In the feuds of Humes and Heatleys, Cunninghams, Montgomeries, Mures, Ogilvies, and Turnbulls, we find them inconspicuously involved, and apparently getting rather better than they gave.

You're left with the great postmodern discovery, anticipated alike by Hume and by the Buddhists: that personal identity is a fiction.

The four semifinalists include Hume, Craig Heap, the defending champion, Stephen O'Hara, and Stuart Wilson, a twenty-three-year-old university student.

But a thinker who in Germany could make himself listened to during the philosophical apathy of the Wolfian age, who from his Ultima Thule of Königsberg could spring forward to grasp the rudder of a vessel, cast away as unseaworthy by no less a captain than Hume, and who has stood at the helm for more than a century, trusted by all whose trust was worth having, will surely find in England, too, patient listeners, even though they might shrink, as yet, from embarking in his good ship in their passage across the ocean of life.