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Hume, David
     
Hume, David
(1711-76) a Scottish writer on philosophy and history. His most famous works are A Treatise of Human Nature and History of England. He believed in empiricism, the idea that human knowledge comes only from what we see and feel, and his ideas had great influence on European philosophy.
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