Hume's analysis of the concept of space in the Treatise of Human Nature commits him to a series of positive assertions on its nature and on the content represented by its idea: space is finitely divisible, and its idea is composed of colored or tactile non-extended points, which leads him to conclude that the idea of space is itself spatial. These assertions seem to commit Hume to an idealistic theory of space. In this paper, I propose to elucidate Hume's arguments for his positive theses and to examine his commitment to idealism through a characterization of the nature of Treatise's propositions.
Hume; Space; Divisibility; Idealism; Skepticism