An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The 1748 text. 19 parts, about 48,069 words, 4 hours of reading. Source edition.

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All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact.
Section 4, part 1 · Read it in Part I
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
Section 5, part 1 · Read it in Part I
A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
Section 10, part 1 · Read it in Part I
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish.
Section 10, part 1 · Read it in Part I
Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Section 12, part 3 · Read it in Part III

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