An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739–40. Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which "fell dead-born from the press," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work. The end product of
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1748 book by David Hume
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2001-08-26T17:13:01Z
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2024-09-11T00:32:33Z
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