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hitch 1, verb (oh) and Hume, David (sh)


hitch 1, verb (oh)



[I and T] informal to get free rides from the Drivers of passing cars by standing at the side of the road and putting a hand out with the thumb raised
-synonym hitchhike hitchhike hitch across/around/to
　He plans to hitch right round the coast of Ireland.
hitch a ride/lift (with sb)
　We hitched a ride with a trucker.
[T] also hitch up
to move a piece of clothing you are wearing so that it is higher than it was before
　She hitched her skirt above her knees and knelt down.
get hitched
informal to get married
　They got hitched without telling their parents.
[T] also hitch up
to lift yourself into a higher position by pushing with your hands
hitch yourself (up) onto/on sth
　Gail hitched herself up onto the high stool.
a) [T always + adverb/preposition] to fasten something to something else, using a rope, chain etc
hitch sth to sth
　He hitched our pickup to his trailer.
　a goat hitched to a rickety fence
b) [T] also hitch up
to fasten an animal to something with wheels so that the animal can pull it forwards
　I hitched up the horse and drove out into the fields.

Hume, David (sh)




born May 7, 1711, Edinburgh, Scot.
died Aug. 25, 1776, Edinburgh

Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist.

He conceived of philosophy as the inductive, experimental science of human Nature. His first major work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), explains the origin of ideas, including the ideas of space, time, and causality, in sense experience; presents an elaborate account of the affective, or emotional, aspects of the mind and assigns a subordinate role to reason in this order ("Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions"); and describes moral goodness in terms of "feelings" of approval or disapproval that a person has when he considers human behaviour in the light of the agreeable or disagreeable consequences either to himself or to others. The Treatise was poorly received, and late in life Hume repudiated it as juvenile. He revised Book I of the Treatise as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1758); a revision of Book III was published as An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). His Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), containing a refutation of the argument from design and a critique of the notion of miracles, was withheld from publication during his lifetime at the urging of friends. From his account of the origin of ideas Hume concluded that we have no knowledge of a "self" as the enduring subject of experience; nor do we have knowledge of any "necessary connection" between causally related events. Immanuel Kant, who developed his critical philosophy in direct reaction to Hume, said that Hume had awakened him from his "dogmatic slumbers." In Britain, Hume's moral theory influenced Jeremy Bentham to adopt utilitarianism. With John Locke and George Berkeley, Hume is regarded as one of the great philosophers of empiricism.