The process of scholarly search is interesting. In the future, how will we discover such connections? Just think if Hume was alive today and some future schol

The process of scholarly search is interesting. In the future, how will we discover such connections? Just think if Hume was alive today and some future scholar wanted to know if he was influenced by Buddhism. Easy enough to find out: check his Google search history at the time he wrote his treatise :-) More seriously, I suspect something like Hume's Treatise, as it is printed, would not be taken seriously today due to it's woeful lack of proper citations. It makes me wonder about the history of citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_citation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_citation Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature: http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/342 http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/342