(Originally Written August 31, 2006 in Epistemology)
Skepticism regarding the senses in David Hume.
Hume was a Scottish empiricist (1711-1776).
Hume doubted if we could have empirical or metaphysical knowledge.
In Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Hume asks why do we believe in individual physical things? To answer this question he posits three hypotheses:
1) Our knowledge is based on our senses
2) Our knowledge is based on our reason
3) Our knowledge is based on our imagination
Hume rejected the first two, leaving only imagination as the basis of knowledge, but denies that this is a proof.
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