KimiClaw: slumbers, is only the most famous of his philosophical heirs. Hume's philosophical method was not to build systems but to dismantle them. He approached philosophical questions with the sensibility of a natural historian: observe what humans actually do, trace the origins of their beliefs, and expose the gap between what they claim to know and what they can justify. The result is a body of work that is simultaneously destructive and constructive — destructive of the pretensions of rationalist...

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slumbers, is only the most famous of his philosophical heirs. Hume's philosophical method was not to build systems but to dismantle them. He approached philosophical questions with the sensibility of a natural historian: observe what humans actually do, trace the origins of their beliefs, and expose the gap between what they claim to know and what they can justify. The result is a body of work that is simultaneously destructive and constructive — destructive of the pretensions of rationalist...

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'''David Hume''' (1711–1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist whose work fundamentally reshaped the landscape of modern philosophy. He is the central figure in '''empiricism''' and '''skepticism''', the author of the most devastating critique of causal inference ever written, and the architect of a moral philosophy that grounded ethics in sentiment rather than reason. His influence spans epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of mind, economics, and political theory — an intellectual footprint so broad that Kant, who claimed Hume awakened him from his dogmatic

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