Addressing human wrongs: A philosophy-of-ontology perspective

Philosophy East and West

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 575-587

  Morgan, Jamie ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3042721104     PISSN: 00318221     EISSN: 15291898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pew.2003.0043     Document Type: Note

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2. Bearing in mind, of course, that it was the observation of constant conjunctions that has been taken up by modern Empiricism, not Hume's own skepticism concerning the inductivist dilemma and what it allows us to say concerning the status of relationships. See David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 1993), pp. 10-13, 17
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