Introduction
In the search for the ‘indubitable truth’, philosophers have often disagreed on the methodology of arriving at this ultimate reality. While Thales and other pre-Socratic thinkers − from Plato to Hegel–found solace in ‘system building’ by way of speculation to arrive at certainty[1], others such as David Hume have told us to take any material that claims to be knowledge and see if on proper examination it contains ‘matters of fact’ or ‘relation of ideas’. If on scrutiny we find such object of knowledge to be defective of these two properties, Hume advises we “commit it to flames” as “it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”
