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Perspective voyage · 1748

Hume — Can experience carry us into the future?

Can we speak of knowledge in ordinary life when our grounds fall short of complete proof?

The question that moves this idea

What can we claim to know?

Instead of memorizing a conclusion, follow the evidence scenes to see what this perspective distinguishes and where its explanation stops.

Scene 1 / 7Evidence-linked account

Hume divides the objects of human reason into relations of ideas and matters of fact.

Open evidence for this scene

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  • An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

    David Hume · 1748 · Hume Texts Online critical text with E/SBN paragraph numbering

    Locator: E 4.1–4.2

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Time × place

Where the idea met time and place

We do not invent a birthplace for an idea. Only evidence-backed events such as writing, publication, teaching, and reception appear here.

Keep the voyage moving

Where should this perspective lead?