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Protagoras comments on Greatest Philosopher in History - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Carinthium 09 August 2013 12:50PM

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Comment author: Protagoras 10 August 2013 04:03:50PM 0 points [-]

I suppose it counts in Hume's favor that he was a big influence on Adam Smith (and so on economics becoming something like a science) and on Edward Gibbon (and so on history becoming something like an objective investigation).