Word: ages
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...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...
...Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...Department [of Government] submitted to the Dean [of FAS Knowles]; all five 'new' members were people who were antipathetic to the published views of Professor Berkowitz, a fact that was known or should have been known to those selecting them; and some of the 'new' experts/panelists were of an age and academic station that should have disqualified them as competitors for the position Professor Berkowitz sought or at least presented the appearance of a conflict of interest in that regard...
Until the age of eight, Bott was educated by governesses in arithmetic, German and English at his Hungarian-speaking home. When he became eight, Bott says he was unhappily sent off to elementary school. School was not his forte, as he write in his memoirs...