Sunday, September 03, 2017

Metaphysics.

A number of individuals have suggested that much or all of metaphysics should be rejected. In the eighteenth century, David Hume took an extreme position, arguing that all genuine knowledge involves either mathematics or matters of fact and that metaphysics, which goes beyond these, is worthless in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

He was entitled to an opinion -  even when an erroneous one!

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