The Scottish philosopher David Hume (17111776) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism. Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepted that this has implications not normally acceptable to philosophers. He wrote for example, "Locke divides all arguments into demonstrative and probable. On this view, we must say that it is only probable that all men must die or that the sun will rise to-morrow, because neither of these can be demonstrated. But to conform our language more to common use, we ought to divide arguments into demonstrations, proofs, and probabilitiesby 'proofs' meaning arguments from experience that leave no room for doubt or opposition." And,
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): What two types of arguments did Locke say there are?
demonstrative and probable