Hume is just saying that it's impossible to rationally demonstrate that,
because X has always followed Y in the past, it will do so in the future.
This is a bit far afield of pen-l, though, I suppose.
Ben
Not so afield of PEN-L, in that Hume's philosophy -- his view that
there are no
Michael Hoover quotes Louse Antony on Hume:
Hume's 'skeptical solution' to his own problem amounted to an abandonment
of the externalist hopes of his time. Belief in induction, he concluded,
was a custom, a tendency of mind ingrained by nature, one of a 'species
of natural instincts, which
anly
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Michael Hoover quotes Louse Antony on Hume:
Hume's 'skeptical solution
One thing that always struck me is that second-generation
postmodernists ( later models) seldom exhibit any familiarity with
primary philosophical texts (Plato, Kant, Rousseau, Hegel, etc.) on
which first-generation postmodernists -- Derrida Co. -- make
endless marginal comments. That
the Postmodern Grin without a Cat (was Re: pomoistas)
Sam wrote to Nicole:
Check out David Hume:
"When we run over our libraries persuaded of these principles, what
havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or
school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask Does it co
So why haven't post-modernists taken Hume seriously? Especially
since a lot of what I read from them sounds like it was cribbed from
Hume?
Brad DeLong
I don't know, but here's my speculation:
1. Presenting postmodernism as a reworking of Hume would diminish
its claim to novelty,
with the style of the likes of Locke, Hume, or even Berkeley.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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How could they take him seriously? He writes rather plain English
intelligible to any educated reader. No one needs to go through initiatory
rites of reading thick and complex prose and search through the thickets for
some speck of sense. Postmodernism as a cultural phenomenom is inconsistent
