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History as Meaning
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- Title: History as Meaning: A Humean Theory of Knowledge
- Author(s): Boris DeWiel
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: New Directions in the Humanities
- Journal Title: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
- Keywords: History of Ideas, Theory of Knowledge, Epistemology, Empiricism
- Volume: 2
- Issue: 2
- Date: April 23, 2006
- ISSN: 1447-9508 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9559 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v02i02/41366
- Citation: DeWiel, Boris. 2006. "History as Meaning: A Humean Theory of Knowledge." The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 2 (2): 0-0. doi:10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v02i02/41366.
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Abstract
A Humean theory of knowledge holds that the source of our ideas is previous ideas. Hume's post-Cartesianism avoids the epistemological problematic of mind-body dualism.
