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<!-- you can have any number of categories here --> [[Category:David Hume]] [[Category:Richard Epstein]] [[Category:Murray Rothbard]] [[Category:Robert Nozick]] [[Category:Greedy Reductionism]] {{Quote | text = I have long entertained a suspicion, with regard to the decisions of philosophers upon all subjects, and found in myself a greater inclination to dispute, than assent to their conclusions. There is one mistake, to which they seem liable, almost without exception; they confine too much their principles, and make no account of that vast variety, which nature has so much affected in all her operations. When a philosopher has once laid hold of a favourite principle, which perhaps accounts for many natural effects, he extends the same principle over the whole creation, and reduces to it every phænomenon, though by the most violent and absurd reasoning. Our own mind being narrow and contracted, we cannot extend our conception to the variety and extent of nature; but imagine, that she is as much bounded in her operations, as we are in our speculation. | cite = [[David Hume]], "{{Link |Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding}}", "The Sceptic" pg. 163. }}
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