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A Critique Of David Hume’s Empiricism
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1.5 SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
We
have already shown from the title of this work that this work is
concerned with providing a critique of David Hume’s empiricism. However,
just as it is done in every critical study, we are not going to rush
into the criticism just like that, we therefore will have a guide or
focus as regards what to criticize. Hume’s empiricism itself is to
provide the guide because, as we are going to criticize it, we will have
to present his empiricism so as to point out what it entails. After
doing this, we will then know how to anchor our criticism to the
problems we will observe, having discovered the nature of Hume’s
Empiricism.
1.6 METHODOLOGY
The method to be adopted in this
work is that of critical study. As the work is on David Hume’s
empiricism, the method will therefore be, first of all to present a
general overview of empiricism. After this we will then narrow our
attention down to Hume’s notion of the subject matter empiricism. It
will be after presenting these that we will therefore settle down to
criticize.
For the purpose of convenience however, our criticism is
going to be in two phases. The first phase will be to provide the
attacks which had been leveled against Hume’s empiricism by other
people, this is because we are quite aware that Hume’s empiricism has
come under attacks over the years.
The second phase of the criticism
will therefore be our own criticism. We will here point out as will be
able, some of those problems Hume’s empiricism are shrouded with due to
Hume’s radical position, and based on these, we will therefore draw our
criticisms against his empiricism.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]One of the never ending processes in life is the process of knowledge acquisition which to the lay man may not constitute any problem as regards how it is acquired. But to philosophers, from time past this has constituted serious debacles. However, in philosophy, it has become the special concern of epistemology one of it’s branches to analyze how knowledge is acquired.Epistemology has rationalism and empiricism as its most outstanding schools. These two schools in analyzing how knowledge ... Continue reading---
