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who is david hume

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Scottish philosopher
empiricist, sceptic, prolly an atheist as well
v intellectual + used strength to our detriment
critique can be found in Dialogues concerning natural religion

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misconception 1.

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Hume died BEFORE Paley, therefore is not commenting on works of Paley - he was v introspectively foresighted and works were applicable to Paley

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misconception 2.

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Paley HAD read the the arguments of DH and therefore was aware of H’s critique of design arguments ( not subjective 2 Paley )

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KEY POINT KEY POINT BEFORE LEARNING PALEY’S ARGUMENTS

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better to understand > memorise all (parrot)