"David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) is an extensive investigation of the origin, nature, aims, and limits of human knowledge and understanding. Hume divides the operations of understanding into two kinds: 1) comparisons of ideas, and 2) inferences concerning matters of fact. Hume claims that all knowledge is based upon these two kinds of reasoning and that the most important relation with which understanding is concerned is the relation of cause-and-effect."
"What we call mind is just a collection of mental perceptions. And finally, without mind, there can be no free will."
(Foi Hume que inspirou Immanuel Kant, que jamais concordou com sua teoria da inexistência de causa e efeito -- e conseguiu derrubar alguns de seus "dogmas", ao mesmo tempo fundando sua própria linha de pensamento com sua Crítica da Razão Pura, Critíca da Razão Prática e Crítica do Julgamento.)
TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE
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