In A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume offers arguments against the infinite\ud
divisibility of space. Some commentators have offered interpretations of these arguments suggesting that a label of ???realist??? or ???materialist??? might apply to Hume???s philosophy. However, a careful reading of the text shows that Hume actually had the opposite intent. These arguments against the infinite divisibility of space demonstrate Hume???s method of examining our ideas and their source impressions to solve philosophical problems. This method serves Hume???s overarching skeptical goals by strictly circumscribing the scope and reach of human knowledge
