“I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain”

—  David Hume, book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)

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Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian 1711–1776

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