Empirical Skepticism
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume • Impressions, Ideas, Causation, and Philosophical Skepticism
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Section IV • Skeptical Doubts
"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past."
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