David Hume

He was a Scottish philosopher and writer, born in 1776, his main ideas are this...




     

• Knowledge emerges from perceptions, whether they are impressions or ideas.

• Sensorial impressions give place to ideas.

              

       

• Concepts such as mind or God fall apart.

He also said that, the logical principles, such as Cause and Effect are just product of imagination, man can't know the nature of the world, this is known as Skepticism.

He was empiricist, this means that the only way of get knowledge is through senses.

Tomb of David Hume in Edinburgh

                         This is because there can be relations of ideas, that those does not tell us nothing about the world, or matter of facts that are uncertain.