Hume, David (1711–76) Scottish philoso-pher, historian and essayist, is customarily classified, along with Locke and Berkeley as one of the leading figures of eighteenth-century British empiricism.
Many regard Hume as the greatest philosopher ever to write in English. His philosophical works include A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), An Enquiry concerning Human Under-standing (1748), An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) and Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779). Hume has often been characterized –especially by logical positivists seeking a forerunner – as an implacable enemy of meta-physics (see logical positivism). …
-This article is about Hume’ ideas about metaphysics, which was translated into Persian by Sedigheh Bayat.
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