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David Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature (1738)

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By this means all knowledge degenerates into probability; and this probability is greater or less, according to our experience of the veracity or deceitfulness of our understanding, and according to the simplicity or intricacy of the question.

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Born: May 7, 1711
Died: August 25, 1776 (aged 65)
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