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Peter Kreeft calls Hume the “most formidable, serious, difficult-to-refute skeptic in the history of human thought.” In Socrates Meets Hume, Kreeft challenges Hume’s ideas via a Socratic examination of human understanding in relation to Hume’s skepticism. Kreeft invites you to take part in the process of refuting Hume’s skeptical arguments, with the aid of Socrates. Based on a fictional dialogue...
impressions are not copies of things, but the direct knowing of things. SOCRATES: Fine—though that admission would seem to compromise your skepticism. HUME: Call it semi-skepticism if you wish. Let us not argue about labels. SOCRATES: Agreed. So I think we are now ready to look at what seems to be your most fundamental point, your critique of Rationalism as dogmatic, and your alternative of semi-skepticism. Your distinction between impressions and ideas was only a preliminary to this much more fundamental
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