Complex Ideas and Hume’s Separability Principle

Mind 131 (522):517-534 (2022)
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In this paper, I will argue that a number of Hume’s claims generate a putative inconsistency with regard to complex ideas and independent existence. I first provide a prima facie argument for the existence of this inconsistency. Then, I examine a number of attempts to rescue Hume from this problem, and argue that each of them fails, before proposing my own solution.

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A Treatise of Human Nature.David Hume & A. D. Lindsay - 1958 - Philosophical Quarterly 8 (33):379-380.
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Cognition and commitment in Hume's philosophy.Don Garrett - 1996 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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