[PDF] Hume's Experimental Method | Semantic Scholar Skip to search formSkip to main content> Semantic Scholar's Logo Search Sign InCreate Free Account You are currently offline. Some features of the site may not work correctly. DOI:10.1080/09608788.2012.670842 Corpus ID: 170120193Hume's Experimental Method @article{Demeter2012HumesEM, title={Hume's Experimental Method}, author={Tam{\'a}s Demeter}, journal={British Journal for the History of Philosophy}, year={2012}, volume={20}, pages={577 - 599} } Tamás Demeter Published 2012 Philosophy British Journal for the History of Philosophy In this article I attempt to reconstruct David Hume's use of the label ‘experimental’ to characterise his method in the Treatise. Although its meaning may strike the present-day reader as unusual, such a reconstruction is possible from the background of eighteenth-century practices and concepts of natural inquiry. 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