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Never Mistaken For A Circle By David Hume Essay

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I loved how Hume viewed mathematical sciences as always clear and determinate and moral as sensible. Because it matched my own views on Mathematics. I also enjoyed his use of geometry to prove his point: “An oval is never mistaken for a circle, nor an hyperbola for an ellipsis. The isosceles and scalenum are distinguished by boundaries more exact than vice and virtue, right and wrong. If any term be defined in geometry, the mind readily, of itself, substitutes, on all occasions, the definition for the term defined: or even when no definition is employed, the object itself may be presented to the senses, and by that means be steadily and clearly apprehended.” His view on obscurity of the ideas, and ambiguity of the terms being an obstacle, in

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