text: This man claimed the morality of action depends on the merit of that action's motive, which in turndepends on the action's merit, in his "circle argument.
full_question: This man claimed the morality of action depends on the merit of that action's motive, which in turndepends on the action's merit, in his "circle argument." One of this man's characters pointed out theproblem of infinite regress in first cause theory in his attack on the cosmological argument. This creator ofPhilo and Cleathes divided statements into relations of ideas and matters of fact and formulated the (*)copy principle. This man created a thought experiment that contradicted his theory that ideas are derived fromimpressions. This man posited a missing shade of blue and warned against deriving an "ought" from an "is" in hisTreatise of Human Nature. For 10 points, name this author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, a Scottishempiricist philosopher.
first_sentence: This man claimed the morality of action depends on the merit of that action's motive, which in turndepends on the action's merit, in his "circle argument.
raw_answer: David Hume