What is 'Hume's Fork'? [Illustrated]

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?

Camden Conversations (Whitman)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Walt-Whitmans-Camden-conversations-Whitman/dp/0813507677/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=walt+whitman%27s+camden+conversations&qid=1585093506&sr=8-1

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Romeo-Juliet-Folger-Shakespeare-Library/dp/0812416554/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1585094298&sr=8-1-spons

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hume)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enquiry-concerning-Understanding-Oxford-Classics/dp/0199549907/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Enquiry+Concerning+Human+Understanding+%28Hume%29&qid=1585093544&sr=8-1

The Portable John Adams (Adams)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-John-Adams-Penguin-Classics/dp/0142437786/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=portable+john+adams&qid=1585093570&sr=8-1

Why I am not a Christian (Russell)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-not-Christian-Religion-Routledge/dp/0415325102/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1585093241&sr=8-1

The General Theory of Employment (Keynes)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/General-Theory-Employment-Interest-Money/dp/1840227478/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1587258411&sr=8-1

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[Music: ‘Ephemera’ by Scott Buckley, www.scottbuckley.com.au]

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