The Basic՚s of Hume՚s Epistemology

• David Hume like his predecessors claimed ‘experience’ as a legitimate and ultimate source of knowledge, his primacy on sense-observation rather than reason makes him fall under the class of ‘empiricists. ’
• Hume regarded ‘perception’ as the fundamental unit of mind and by perception he refered to the contents of mind like, sensations, emotions, imagination, ideas, and thoughts.
• In contrast to Berkeley and similar to Lockean view, Hume held that the external world exists independently of human mind.
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