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39 view of objective reality which Hume finally accepted, lacked even the plausibility of the Berkeleyan and Kantian doctrines which preceded and followed it, and indeed remained to the end a most paradoxical theory of empirical idealism instead of the empirical realism which his reasoning had demonstrated. And if these considerations help us to understand why Hume turned a deaf ear to his own words, perhaps they may also explain why so many of his numerous opponents and disciples have been equally neglectful of this point in his philosophy.