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...ed the argument on the basis that humans cannot know God's nature. [[David Hume]] also offered an [[Empirical evidence|empirical]] objection, criticising i ...er=Oxford University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-19-513809-2}}</ref> Some scholars argue that Islamic philosopher [[Avicenna]] (Ibn Sina) developed a [[Proof ...

...nature|laws of nature]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Simon Blackburn |title=Hume and Thick Connexions |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |vol ...|arxiv=1508.05949 |bibcode=2015Natur.526..682H }}</ref> Consequently, some scholars now hypothesise consciousness as fundamental.<ref>{{cite journal |author=St ...

...the new [[Dynamics (mechanics)|dynamics]] that had arisen from the work of scholars such as Galileo Galilei and [[Isaac Newton]].<ref>Eoin P. O'Neill (editor), ...k | editor-last=Russell | editor-first=Paul | title=The Oxford Handbook of Hume | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=2016 | isbn=978-0-19-049392-9 |p ...

...te=2018-11-08}}</ref> while others ([[Joseph Butler|Butler]], [[David Hume|Hume]], [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]], [[Adam Smith]], [[Thomas Nagel|Nagel ...esign effective, enduring, and efficient environmental interventions, many scholars and policy makers have focused on warm-glow effects.<ref name=":12"/> Becau ...

...Einstein arrived at special relativity has been a fascinating one to many scholars: A lowly, twenty-six year old patent officer (third class), largely self-ta ...when, as a logical positivist heavily influenced by his reading of [[David Hume]] and [[Ernst Mach]], he had rejected such unobservable concepts as absolut ...

...evel and output was explained by the [[quantity theory of money]]; [[David Hume]] had presented such a theory in his 1752 work ''Of Money'' (''[[Essays, Mo ...rts of ''General Theory'', has been the subject of debates. Economists and scholars debate whether Keynes intended his advice to be a major policy shift to add ...