Argument Quote by Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

“Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because they had…

— Anonymous

“If the process fails at any point, the idea in question lacks cognitive content. When carried through successfully, however, it yields a ‘just definition’…

— David Hume

“Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.”

— Eric Weiner

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy,…

— Mary Hesse

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of…

— Jonathan Miller

I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths,…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

— Alain de Botton

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

— Gay Hendricks

In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general…

— William Strunk, Jr

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

— Edward Abbey