Liberal Humean🧠
One who has had their mind enlarged or ruined by a good course in epistemology might come out a fundamentalist, or absolutist, or a Humean—convinced that all proof is impossible and no idea is any more valid than another. But a wiser and less logical student might become merely a liberal Humean—one who holds that no proof is absolute but some ideas are more plausible than others, e.g. “If it rains, the streets will get wet.”
References
- Wilson, A., Robert (1986). The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 2 Skepticism and Blind Faith (p. 71). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press.
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