I think the more someone considers the whole work, the clearer it becomes that Hume really did have a coherent model in mind, but the chapter "Of Probability" i

I think the more someone considers the whole work, the clearer it becomes that Hume really did have a coherent model in mind, but the chapter "Of Probability" is a spot that might ring a bell for reasons that will be obvious: https://davidhume.org/texts/t/1/3/11 https://davidhume.org/texts/t/1/3/11 I think this section on animal intelligence helps spell it out too (I also have to wonder if people just ignore this part in general when they claim he's an "empiricist" in the understood sense, or maybe they just failed to fill in the missing shade of blue): https://davidhume.org/texts/e/9 https://davidhume.org/texts/e/9