One of the key debates in philosophy is one between the schools of Empiricism and Rationalism. Their opposition to each other stems from a fundamental disagreement about what kind of knowledge exists and how we access it. One empiricist, David Hume, developed a fairly convincing account which is now called ‘Hume’s Fork’. But what exactly does it say, and how useful is it as a theory?

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