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8.1 Hume’s Doxastic Scepticism and Non-Dogmatic Philosophy 8.1 Hume’s Doxastic Scepticism and Non-Dogmatic Philosophy
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8.1.1 Belief and Reality’s ‘Title’ 8.1.1 Belief and Reality’s ‘Title’
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8.1.1.1 Belief is sensitive not cogitative. 8.1.1.1 Belief is sensitive not cogitative.
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8.1.1.2 Belief in existence. 8.1.1.2 Belief in existence.
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8.2 Three Kinds of Assent 8.2 Three Kinds of Assent
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8.2.1 Hume’s Gentlemanly Scepticism 8.2.1 Hume’s Gentlemanly Scepticism
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8.2.2 Academic Belief 8.2.2 Academic Belief
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8.2.3 Probability as Pithanon: Hume the Clitomachian 8.2.3 Probability as Pithanon: Hume the Clitomachian
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8.2.3.1 Locke’s twilight probabilities. 8.2.3.1 Locke’s twilight probabilities.
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8.2.3.2 Hume’s departure from Metrodorian twilight probabilism. 8.2.3.2 Hume’s departure from Metrodorian twilight probabilism.
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8.3 Sceptical Science and Dogmatic Hidden Standards 8.3 Sceptical Science and Dogmatic Hidden Standards
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8.4 Conclusion: An End to the Voyage 8.4 Conclusion: An End to the Voyage
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Notes Notes
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8 Pathê: Hume’s Non-Dogmatic Philosophy
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Published:December 2019
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Abstract
Chapter Eight returns to the topics with which Chapter One ended, and it completes Part Two’s reading of Hume through the Pyrrhonian Fourfold. The chapter examines Hume’s so-called Title Principle and argues that Hume is a doxastic sceptic and that his sceptical theory of belief is very much like that of the non-epistemic, non-realist Academic scepticism articulated by Clitomachus of Carthage as he reinterpreted Carneades. The chapter argues furthermore that Hume’s theory of probability is pointedly non-epistemic and non-metaphysical. Comparing Hume’s non-dogmatic probabilism to Locke’s Metrodorian realism, Chapter Eight examines Hume’s so-called gentlemanly scepticism, as well as his understanding of scientific standardsand the non-dogmatic quality of common life.
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