David Hume

         David Hume was a philosopher unlike any other; he was ever able to attend to a university because it was believed that he was a heretic, so he didn’t think like the philosophers of that time as he did not follow the same doctrine of pattern as the others.

He was a very good friend of Rousseau but as their philosophical understanding started to grow apart, they began having conflicts. They ceased to talk for the rest of their lives.

He also followed to a certain extent the scientific method, because he performed many analysis of the human mind with this method.

         He believed that knowledge is acquired through your senses, therefore he was an empiricist, but he was a skeptic because he believed true knowledge is impossible as we are not sure if our world is real or not, so we do not know if our reality is in fact existent.

         Another theory he has is called “The Bundle Theory” in which he states that we do not exist and we are only senses, experiences and ideas in the air that happen to be together. He also said that objects do not exist as they cannot exist if they are removed of their properties.He also stated that you can never see yourself, and therefore you are undefined.

         Unfortunately he also published a theory called “Induction Problem” because he was an skeptic and he believed you cannot have any knowledge, all his theories could be incorrect. So, as real knowledge does not exist, this means inductive assumptions can’t be justified.