# Adam — An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding character guide

> Adam in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-v-sceptical-solution-of-these-doubts

## Who they are

Biblical first man used as an example in reasoning about experience.

## In the story

### [Of the Different Species of Philosophy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_enquiry_concerning_human_understanding_se/chapters/i-of-the-different-species-of-philosophy)

Mentioned in the context of the first man, used as an example to illustrate the limits of human understanding without experience.

### [IV: Sceptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_enquiry_concerning_human_understanding_se/chapters/iv-sceptical-doubts-concerning-the-operations-of-the-understanding)

Used as a hypothetical example of a perfect rational being who could not infer the suffocating nature of water or the consuming nature of fire without prior experience.

### [X: Of Miracles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_enquiry_concerning_human_understanding_se/chapters/x-of-miracles)

Referenced in the context of the biblical account of the fall and the age of man extended to near a thousand years.

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