Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
Empiricism, skepticism
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
Empiricism, skepticism
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section V, Sceptical Solution of these Doubts, Part I
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