Steven Dutch has a nice piece on Hume. https://stevedutch.net/Pseudosc/Hume.htm
And Thomas Reid also.
But you see that Thomas Reid does not knock him nor Berkeley in such away as to say they made obvious mistakes. Rather the matter is subtle.
Also the very idea in itself that reason can not prove anything but what is self contradiction is taken as an axiom in Hume but for some reason is itself never proved. [Huemer pointed out that reason can know more things than just what is not self contradictory. (I think Bryan Caplan was the first to point out this problem in Hume.)
But how does reason know? Is it by Bayesian Probability as Huemer says? Or things that we know by non intuitive immediate knowledge as Leonard Nelson says [based on Kant and Fries]. Or is it by a dialectical process like Hegel says?
And Thomas Reid also.
But you see that Thomas Reid does not knock him nor Berkeley in such away as to say they made obvious mistakes. Rather the matter is subtle.
Also the very idea in itself that reason can not prove anything but what is self contradiction is taken as an axiom in Hume but for some reason is itself never proved. [Huemer pointed out that reason can know more things than just what is not self contradictory. (I think Bryan Caplan was the first to point out this problem in Hume.)
But how does reason know? Is it by Bayesian Probability as Huemer says? Or things that we know by non intuitive immediate knowledge as Leonard Nelson says [based on Kant and Fries]. Or is it by a dialectical process like Hegel says?
