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In his own day, and into the nineteenth century, Hume’s philosophical writings were generally seen as perverse and destructive. Their goal was “to produce in the reader a complete distrust in his own faculties,” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1815–1817. The best that could be said for Hume as a philosopher was that he provoked wiser thinkers to refute him in interesting ways. David Hume Quotes, David Hume, Age Of Enlightenment, Western Philosophy, History Of England, Mid Life Crisis, National Portrait Gallery, Art Uk, Philosophers

In his own day, and into the nineteenth century, Hume’s philosophical writings were generally seen as perverse and destructive. Their goal was “to produce in the reader a complete distrust in his own faculties,” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1815–1817. The best that could be said for Hume as a philosopher was that he provoked wiser thinkers to refute him in interesting ways.

Correlation is not causation - OUPblog David Hume Quotes, George Berkeley, The Wealth Of Nations, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, John Locke, Western Philosophy, History Of England, Great Thinkers

Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum A famous slogan in statistics is that correlation does not imply causation. We know that there is a statistical correlation between eating ice cream and drowning incidents, for instance, but ice cream consumption does not cause drowning. Where any two factors - A and B - are correlated, there are four possibilities: 1. A is a cause of B, 2. B is a cause of A, 3. the correlation is pure coincidence and 4., as in the ice cream case, A and B are connected by…

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