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In the last four chapters, I consider the way the two readings, Idealist and Materialist, impact scepticism. In this chapter, I argue that Materialism is more Sceptical than Idealism in Hume’s System. In the following chapters, I will focus on the impact the two readings have on scepticism within a more sensible (Idealist) one, which results from replacing induction with Inference to the Best Explanation.
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Elsewhere, Hume allows for error about our impressions. “The confusion, in which impressions are sometimes involv’d, proceeds only from their faintness and unsteadiness” (T 1.1.7.4; SBN 19). But our beliefs about them are, even here, typically veridical.
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Weintraub, R. (2024). Materialism Is More Sceptical than Idealism in Hume’s System. In: Humean Bodies and their Consequences. Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50799-1_12
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