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Ignorance and Evidence in Hume Scholarship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2010
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- Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , Winter 1987 , pp. 731 - 734
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- Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1987
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1 Wilson, Fred, “Wright's Enquiry Concerning Humean Understanding”, Dialogue 25 (1986), 747–752.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 Hume, David, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. Selby-Bigge, L. A., 2nd ed. revised by P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), 267.Google Scholar
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5 Ibid., note 7.
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7 This has been further developed in my “Hume's Academic Scepticism: A Reinterpretation of his Philosophy of Human Understanding”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1986), 407–435.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
8 See Price, H. H., Hume's Theory of the External World (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940)Google Scholar. Unlike many of his followers, Price carefully presented his interpretation of Hume's ontology and epistemology as a reconstruction of his philosophy. The obvious problem with this reconstruction is that it leaves no room for any serious scepticism in Hume's philosophy. There is nothing of which we lack knowledge.
9 Cf. Wilson, , “Wright's Enquiry”, 752.Google Scholar