"Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses" Discussion Questions

David Hume
  1. Hume thinks it is senseless to ask whether there is external world. Why does he believe this?
  2. How does Hume argue that neither reason nor our senses can cause us to believe in the existence of the external world?
  3. What is the idea of “double existence,” and why doesn’t Hume like it?
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