Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without a...

2000-09-10 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 9/10/00 11:33:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the claim that "we always will" - i.e. that "in other instances" the repetition, the expectation and the belief will be conjoined - cannot be justified Of coutrse it can't. If it could, then there

Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without a...

2000-09-10 Thread JKSCHW
Hume would say, more constant conjunction is what you have--here, the CC of the bell with the CC of the two other things. --jks In a message dated 9/10/00 12:13:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I give up. What would Hume say? The bell is warning you that constant

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without a...

2000-09-10 Thread Ken Hanly
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 12:46 PM Subject: [PEN-L:1621] Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without a... Hume would say, more constant conjunction is what you have--here, the CC of the bell with the CC of the two other things. --jks

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without a...

2000-09-10 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 9/10/00 4:10:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ustin wrote: In a message dated 9/10/00 11:33:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the claim that "we always will" - i.e. that "in other instances" the repetition, the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without aCat(was Re: pomoistas)

2000-09-09 Thread Ted Winslow
Ken Hanly wrote: Reason is not capable of really questioning induction since reason is powerless against such a natural instinct. How then is Hume able to question induction? Ted -- Ted WinslowE-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Division of Social Science VOICE:

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without aCat(was Re: pomoistas)

2000-09-09 Thread Carrol Cox
Ted Winslow wrote: Ken Hanly wrote: Reason is not capable of really questioning induction since reason is powerless against such a natural instinct. How then is Hume able to question induction? This reason/passion/[appetite] metaphysics had its origins in Plato's attack on Athenian

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without aCat(was Re: pomoistas)

2000-09-09 Thread Ken Hanly
He doesn't really. He questions justifications of it. Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: Ted Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 2:07 PM Subject: [PEN-L:1562] Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without aCat(was Re

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without aCat(was Re: pomoistas)

2000-09-09 Thread Jim Devine
At 03:31 PM 09/09/2000 -0500, you wrote: Going down the road of hyperbolic doubt gets you to the malevolent demon and deep questions about whether we might not all be brains in vats. I doubt these questions are of great practical use as preparation for socialist revolution. Isn't that the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without aCat(was Re: pomoistas)

2000-09-09 Thread Ken Hanly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 4:03 PM Subject: [PEN-L:1573] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without aCat(was Re: pomoistas) At 03:31 PM 09/09/2000 -0500, you wrote: Going down the road of hyperbolic doubt gets you to the malevolent

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume the Postmodern Grin without a Cat(was...

2000-09-09 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 9/9/00 3:15:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ken Hanly wrote: Reason is not capable of really questioning induction since reason is powerless against such a natural instinct. How then is Hume able to question induction? Ken misspeaks,