[mjp]

After being asked by an eight-year-old girl what books she should read, he recommended Dawkins' Magic of Reality, Greek and Roman myths, anything satirical by Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, PG Wodehouse, David Hume,

Hume was an irrational skeptic. He concluded that neither the senses nor reason can yield reliable knowledge. He also concluded that man is a helpless creature caught in an unintelligible universe.

[tumblindice]

You’re talking out of your toothless end. It’s obvious you know very little about Hume, except that you disagree with him.

In a nutshell, Hume said that if we see some thing for which we have no explanation, if it is possible to ascribe to it a natural explanation rather than a supernatureal explanation, then to go with the former simply because it makes more sense.

For example, maybe it’s just charred bread and cheese, and not Jesus that we’re seeing in the grilled cheese sandwich.

Here you go http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-David-Hume-Philosopher.htm

mjp, you remind me of the story Hitchens tells about the Texas governor (not Perry) who was faced with pressure from some groups to allow Bibles published in Spanish (or something similar to that, maybe sermons preached in Spanish) and his response:
“If English was good enough for Jesus it’s good enough for Texans.”

Man, I’m gonna miss this guy.

[the scotsman]

Hume was a philosophical giant and a genius.