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It is a masterpiece of modern empiricist philosophy. Hume carried out the methods of experimental philosophy and the principles of empiricism to the end, and came to the skeptical conclusion that most of the knowledge that man thought he had about the world was unreliable, but that was all we could get as human beings. For the first time in the history of philosophy, he systematically questioned the validity of causation and induction, which had a subversive influence on philosophy and science.