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Evaluation of Hume’s Principle

1960
We are now in a position to make a survey of the principle of the priority of impressions to ideas: to examine both the nature of the principle and the use which Hume makes of it as a criterion of meaning. To do the latter task completely, we must give a full account of Hume’s theory of knowledge.
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On the Harmless Impredicativity of N= (‘Hume’s Principle’)

1998
Abstract Michael Dummett’s Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics and its famous precursor, Frege: Philosophy of Language, contrast sharply in their estimates of Frege’s achievements in those respective subjects. The guiding conviction of Frege: Philosophy of Language was that even admirers of Frege’s writings have tended to a merely ...
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Interpreting Hume on the Causal Principle

2020
Abstract Chapter 4 supports by means of collateral evidence the claim that Hume woke Kant by attacking the principle of sufficient reason. First, it considers Treatise 1.3.3, though without supposing that Kant knew this text, in order to show that there, where Kemp Smith and others thought Hume was attacking the principle that every ...
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A Justification for the Quantificational Hume Principle

Erkenntnis, 2019
In recent work Bruno Whittle has presented a new challenge to the Cantorian idea that there are different infinite cardinalities. Most challenges of this kind have tended to focus on the status of the axioms of standard set theory; Whittle’s is different in that he focuses on the connection between standard set theory and intuitive concepts related to ...
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Hume’s “Principles” and Kant’s “Categories”

1975
One of Hume’s and Kant’s most central claims is to have proposed and worked out a new system of thought which solves the age-old baffling problems of philosophy in an entirely new way. The “principles” of human nature which Hume discovers in his philosophy correspond programmatically to the “categories” which Kant works out in his philosophy.
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Coleridge, Hume, and the Principles of Political Knowledge

Studies in Romanticism, 2010
Reserving then the expression "Idea" [Idee] for the objective or real Notion [Begriff] and distinguishing it from the Notion itself and still more from mere pictorial thought, we must also reject even more vigorously that estimate of the Idea according to which it is not anything actual, and true thoughts are said to be only ideas. --G. W.
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The Hume-Edwards Principle and the Cosmological Argument

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1998
The Cosmological Argument for the existence of God claims that the universe is as a whole contingent and the only possible explanation for its existence is that it has been created by a necessary entity or entities, where a necessary being (or, alternatively, a self-explainer) would be one for which a sound ontological argument holds, even though ...
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Hume's First Principles.

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1967
Antony Flew, Robert Fendel Anderson
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Hume's Principle and Sortal Concepts

2007
In this talk I try to evaluate the neo-Fregeans’ program by concentrating on the “ Caesar Problem” (the problem Frege himself raised for what was, in effect, his anticipation of neo-logicism) and neo-fregeans’ solution to it, as well as on some issues concerning Hume’ s Principle in particular and abstraction principles in
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Reason, Normativity, and Hume’s “Title Principle”

2014
David Hume’s “Title Principle,” as it has come to be called, is a specification of the normative scope of reason: “Where reason is lively, and mixes itself with some propensity, it ought to be assented to. Where it does not, it never can have any title to operate on us.” This chapter seeks to answer four central questions about the principle.
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