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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...

SOCRATES: But your own words may hurt you. Let’s explore some of your words. You seem to make two main points in this section: first, that all objects of human reason are either “relations of ideas” or “matters of fact”, and then, second, your critique of the common notion that we can rightly reason by cause and effect. HUME: Those are indeed my two main points. SOCRATES: Here is what you say about the first point. (We will save the second for our next conversation.) All the objects of human reason
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