This man ironically said that even "the most stupid and ignorant" men see that beasts reason just like themselves in section 16 of Part 3 of one work.
This man ironically said that even "the most stupid and ignorant" men see that beasts reason just like themselves in section 16 of Part 3 of one work. It was said to follow from his beliefs that night causes day and vice versa by his critic Thomas Reid. He argued that due to our limited mental capacity, space and time must be finitely divisible. One of his works ends with a fictional Epicurus speech and often uses the image of colliding billiard balls; that work describes "custom or habit" as the reason people perceive causation. He distinguished ideas from impressions, insisted no one can obtain an "ought" from an "is", and declared reason to be "the slave of the passions". For 10 points, name this author of Treatise of Human Nature and Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, a skeptical empiricist Scot.
This man ironically said that even "the most stupid and ignorant" men see that beasts reason just like themselves in section 16 of Part 3 of one work.
David Hume