HUME’S EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE ON HUMAN NATURE IN THE TREATISE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18372/2412-2157.14.8747Abstract
The aim of the paper is to present the meaning of the notion of «experimental method», which is mentioned in the title of David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. I claim it to be the ground of the whole system of Hume’s system of sciences concerning various aspects of human life.References
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