As a nit, wasn't Kant's Critique of Pure Reason written in part as a response to Hume?
As a nit, wasn't Kant's Critique of Pure Reason written in part as a response to Hume?
"David Hume, who among all philosophers came closest to this problem, still did not conceive of it anywhere near determinately enough and in its universality ... believing himself to have brought out that such an a priori proposition is entirely impossible, and according to his inferences everything that we call metaphysics would come down to a mere delusion of an alleged insight of reason into that which has in fact merely been borrowed from experience and from habit has taken on the appearance of necessity."
The "problem" Kant is referring to is how metaphysics can be possible in spite of what Hume proved. Kant says in the same breath, that this is the central problem of the critique - so i guess you can nearly say that it's written almost entirely as a response to Hume.