 Second, Hume is supposed to have been influenced by Bayle’s historical account of the types of skepticism and his own use of skeptical argument in attacking orthodox positions. Bayle’s position on skepticism has been discussed above. It may not be too misleading to describe Hume’s resolution of skeptical difficulties in terms of “taste and sentiment” as a naturalistic version of Bayle’s supernaturalistic resolution in terms of grace that was described by the same phrase.