An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a seminal philosophical work by David Hume that critically examines the nature and limits of human knowledge, especially our beliefs about causation, induction, and miracles.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → philosophical work → treatise →
author	David Hume →
basedOn	A Treatise of Human Nature →
centralConcept	constant conjunction → copy principle → habit or custom as basis of causal inference → impressions and ideas distinction → necessary connection as mental expectation → problem of induction → relations of ideas and matters of fact → skeptical argument about miracles →
countryOfOrigin	Scotland →
genre	empiricist philosophy → epistemology →
hasAlternativeTitle	Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding →
hasPart	Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy → Section II Of the Origin of Ideas → Section III Of the Association of Ideas → Section IV Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding → Section IX Of the Reason of Animals → Section V Sceptical Solution of these Doubts → Section VI Of Probability → Section VII Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion → Section VIII Of Liberty and Necessity → Section X Of Miracles → Section XI Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State → Section XII Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy →
isRevisionOf	A Treatise of Human Nature →
mainSubject	causation → epistemology → human understanding → induction → miracles → skepticism →
notableFor	formulation of the modern problem of induction → influential argument against rational belief in miracles → systematic critique of causal reasoning →
originalLanguage	English →
period	Enlightenment philosophy →
philosophicalInfluenceOn	Immanuel Kant → analytic philosophy → logical positivism →
philosophicalSchool	empiricism →
placeOfPublication	London →
publicationYear	1748 →
publisher	Andrew Millar →

Referenced by (17)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy → Section V Sceptical Solution of these Doubts → Section VIII Of Liberty and Necessity → Section XI Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State →	partOf
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ("Section II Of the Origin of Ideas") → An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ("Section IV Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding") → An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ("Section VII Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion") →	hasPart
British Enlightenment → David Home → David Hume →	notableWork
A Treatise of Human Nature →	followedBy
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ("Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding") →	hasAlternativeTitle
Scottish Enlightenment →	notableWorkProduced
Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy →	openingSectionOf
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals →	relatedWork
The Natural History of Religion →	relatedWorkByAuthor
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion →	relatedWorkOfAuthor