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Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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Disappointed by the public reception to "e;A Treatise of Human Nature"e;, published anonymously between 1739 and 1740, David Hume decided to produce a shorter more polemic version of that work nearly ten years later. That revision, which was published in 1748, would be entitled "e;An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"e;. Dispensing with much of the extraneous material from the "e;Treatise"e;, Hume focuses on his more vital propositions in the "e;Enquiry"e;.

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  • is Hume's theory of knowledge which would influence thinkers both in his time and for generations to come. This edition includes an introduction by L. A. Selby-Bigge and a biographical afterword

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ISBN: 9781420976946
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Author: Hume, David
Publisher: Neeland Media LLC
Format: Ebook

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