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Quotation from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
“Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion”
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section XII, Part III (Project Gutenberg #9662)
The book's closing verdict on any volume that contains neither mathematical reasoning nor experimental reasoning about matters of fact.
Citation: "Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion" — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section XII, Part III (Project Gutenberg #9662). (id an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding-q11)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
