ABSTRACT
It is often said that Hume carried the epistemological principles of British empiricism to their logical conclusion. This is no doubt close to the truth, but it is not exactly right. Hume's epistemological conclusions were consequences of principles that he was the first to formulate precisely. There is a family resemblance between them and the principles employed by Locke and Berkeley, but they are not exactly the same. Hume is the first clear example of a modern empiricist.
