TY - JOUR
T1 - Locke vs. Hume
T2 - Who is the better concept-empiricist?
AU - Weintraub, Ruth
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - According to the received view, Hume is a much more rigorous and consistent concept-empiricist than Locke. Hume is supposed to have taken as a starting point Locke's meaning-empiricism, and worked out its full radical implications. Locke, by way of contrast, cowered from drawing his theory's strange consequences. The received view about Locke's and Hume's concept-empiricism is mistaken, !shall argue. Hume may be more uncompromising (although he too falters), but he is not more rigorous than Locke. It is not because of (intellectual) timidity that Locke does not draw Hume's conclusions from his empiricism. It is, rather, because of his much sounder method.
AB - According to the received view, Hume is a much more rigorous and consistent concept-empiricist than Locke. Hume is supposed to have taken as a starting point Locke's meaning-empiricism, and worked out its full radical implications. Locke, by way of contrast, cowered from drawing his theory's strange consequences. The received view about Locke's and Hume's concept-empiricism is mistaken, !shall argue. Hume may be more uncompromising (although he too falters), but he is not more rigorous than Locke. It is not because of (intellectual) timidity that Locke does not draw Hume's conclusions from his empiricism. It is, rather, because of his much sounder method.
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U2 - 10.1017/s001221730000202x
DO - 10.1017/s001221730000202x
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AN - SCOPUS:60950157655
SN - 0012-2173
VL - 46
SP - 481
EP - 500
JO - Dialogue-Canadian Philosophical Review
JF - Dialogue-Canadian Philosophical Review
IS - 3
ER -