Humeian

English

Etymology

Hume + -ian

Adjective

Humeian (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of Humean
    • 1963, Walter John Hipple Jr. [ed.] in the preface to the 1963 Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints edition of Alexander Gerard’s 1759 Essay on Taste, page viii
      This was the philosophical company Gerard kept, and it is surprising to find in him so much of the Humeian analyst as we do alongside the inevitable concessions to “common sense.”

Noun

Humeian (plural Humeians)

  1. Alternative form of Humean
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