New interpretations of Hume have brought to light new problems in the fields of metaphysics and epistemology. This is evident in the skeptic and empiricist interpretations of Hume that both Hume s contemporaries and the logical positivists have held. Logical positivists have used Hume s writing as a foundation for their criterion of meaningfulness to eliminate metaphysical statements as meaningless utterances. An epistemological naturalist interpretation of Hume helps to address the problems of the positivists attempt to construct a criterion of meaning. The problems of the criterion that I...