title: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  David Hume 
description: Peter Millican is founder and director of the Leeds Electronic Text Centre and editor of the journal Hume Studies. He recently edited Reading Hume on Human Understanding (OUP, 2002).
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  Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  
  
  
  
  
  DAVID HUME
  
  
  
  
  
  (1711-1776)
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [HOW TO READ THE TEXT](../Text/howtoread.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](../Text/intro.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Section 1: The different kinds of philosophy](../Text/sec01.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Section 2: The origin of ideas](../Text/sec02.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Section 3: The association of ideas](../Text/sec03.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Section 4: Sceptical doubts about the operations of the
  understanding](../Text/sec04.html)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Part 2](../Text/sec04.html#part2)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Section 5: Sceptical solution of these doubts](../Text/sec05.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Part 2](../Text/sec05.xhtml#part2)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Section 6: Probability](../Text/sec06.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Section 7: The idea of necessary connection](../Text/sec07.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Part 2](../Text/sec07.xhtml#part2)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Section 8: Liberty and necessity](../Text/sec08.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Part 2](../Text/sec08.xhtml#part2)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Section 9: The reason of animals](../Text/sec09.xhtml)
  