Transcription of Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingDavid HumeCopyright Jonathan Bennett 2017. All rights reserved[Brackets]enclose editorial explanations. Small dots enclose material that has been added, but can be read asthough it were part of the original text. Occasional bullets, and also indenting of passages that are not quotations,are meant as aids to grasping the structure of a sentence or a thought. -The volume referred to at the outsetcontained the present work, theDissertation on the Passionsand theEnquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals,which were all published together.
company instructive, and solitude entertaining. Man is •a reasonable being, and as such he gets appro-priate food and nourishment from the pursuit of knowledge; but so narrow are the limits of human understanding that we can’t hope for any great amount of knowledge or for much security in respect of what we do know. As well as being
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