Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.
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Hume
//hjuːm//
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Wonder why he was struck off the rolls. Had his office in Hume street. Same house as Molly’s namesake, Tweedy, crown solicitor for Waterford.
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In his Prolegomena, Immanuel Kant credited Scottish philosopher David Hume with having woken him from his "dogmatic slumber".
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