“Hume believed that we can’t be absolutely certain about anything that is based only on traditional beliefs, testimony, habitual relationships, or cause and effect. In short, we can rely only on what we learn from experience.”
[The Theory That Would Not Die, McGrayne, Sharon B.]
Empiricism put forth by David Hume claims that observation/investigation is the correct way to extend our cognitive capacities. However, individual experiences often are incomplete and biased due to limited experiences. Hence, practically, it is skeptical to gain certainty based only on personal experience, observations, and investigation.
Nowadays, in the Big Data era, we have enormous data collected from all the people in the world. Integrated data can provide unbiased and common observation about human nature. That is, it is time to recall Hume’s empiricism. In fact, the fundamental philosophy of machine learning is totally based on Hume’s empiricism and this would bring us closer to “Truth”. If Hume was still alive, he would be a Googler.
Everybody makes DATA 