Humean

== English == === Alternative forms === Humean, Humeian, Humian (all forms also attested with initial minuscule) === Etymology === From Hume (“David Hume”) +‎ -an. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhjuːmɪən/, enPR: hyo͞oʹmĭən === Adjective === Humean (not comparable) Of or pertaining to the philosophy of David Hume (1711–1776). 1777, Robert Dick [ed.], The North-British Intelligencer, volume 5, “A Letter to Adam Smith, LL. D. on the Life, Death, and Philoſophy of his friend David Hume, Eſq.”, page 134, footnote §: § Treatiſe of Human Nature, L. 467. In the P. S. to this letter, a view will be given of the Humian ſyſtem, taken exactly as it appeared to its author at ſix o’clock in the evening. 1800, Charles Lamb in his executor-cum-editor Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd’s 1837 Letters of Charles Lamb, with a Sketch of his Life, volume 1, chapter VI: “Letters to Manning, after Lamb’s removal to the Temple”, pages 190–191: I am reading ‘Burnet’s own Times.’ […] He tells his story like an old man past political service, bragging to his sons on winter evenings of the part he took in public transactions, when ‘his old cap was new.’ Full of scandal, which all true history is. […] None of the cursed philosophical Humeian indifference, so cold and unnatural and inhuman! ==== Translations ==== === Noun === Humean (plural Humeans) An adherent or advocate of Humean doctrines. 1815 June, The British Critic, volume 3, article VI: book review of Thomas Belsham’s 1815 “Letters addressed to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in Vindication of the Unitarians from the Allegations of his Lordship in his late Charge”, page 639 [H]e who would educate a young man in the principles of Unitarianism will, in all probability, educate him in the principles of infidelity. The reason is obvious. In order to reduce his religious creed to the level of Unitarianism, he must educate him in that “freedom of inquiry,” which teaches him first to dispute and then to reject all the leading features of Christianity, upon the very same grounds, and on the same principles, on which the Deist rejects the probability of a revelation, and upon which, if pushed to their full extent, the Humian will question even the being and the attributes of God. Disputandi pruritus, animi scabies. 1927, Collected Works of V. I. Lenin (International Publishers), volume XIII: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [aut.] and David Kvitko [tr.], “Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Notes Concerning a Reactionary Philosophy”, page 100 We materialists, after Engels, term the Kantians and Humeans, agnostics, because they deny the objective reality of the source of our sensations. 1973, Northern Illinois University, The Philosophy Forum (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers), volume 14, issue 1, page 54 Agreement between these two accounts, however, ends here, since for Humeians the one act is preceded in time by the other, whereas for Leibnizians the two are exact contemporaries. === Anagrams === humane