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Humeian
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English
Etymology
From en Hume ian.
Adjective
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en Humean.
1963, Walter John Hipple Jr. [ed.] in the preface to the 1963 Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints edition of Alexander Gerard’s 1759 Essay on Taste, page viii
This was the philosophical company Gerard kept, and it is surprising to find in him so much of the Humeian analyst as we do alongside the inevitable concessions to “common sense.”
Noun
en Humean.