David Hume

In his own day, and into the nineteenth century, Hume’s philosophical writings were generally seen as perverse and destructive. Their goal was “to produce in the reader a complete distrust in his own faculties,” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1815–1817. The best that could be said for Hume as a philosopher was that he provoked wiser thinkers to refute him in interesting ways.

Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum A famous slogan in statistics is that correlation does not imply causation. We know that there is a statistical correlation between eating ice cream and drowning incidents, for instance, but ice cream consumption does not cause drowning. Where any two factors - A and B - are correlated, there are four possibilities: 1. A is a cause of B, 2. B is a cause of A, 3. the correlation is pure coincidence and 4., as in the ice cream case, A and B are connected by…

David Hume

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No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own. -David Hume

David Hume Quotes and Sayings. He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

"Una persona es libre cuando actúa si tiene una razón para ello, es decir, una combinación adecuada entre sus verdaderos deseos y creencias. Cualquier otra motivación es signo de resignación propios de quienes son escalvos de sus circunstancias".David Hume.

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