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...spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which lived that he was a representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions 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 a absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but factfilled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
According to the defense, that meant it was all right to keep beating King until he assumed a "compliance posture" by lying still and putting his hands on his head. The lawyers pressed the point that police work -- and police -- can sometimes be brutal, within the allowed limits. Expert witnesses stood before jurors to demonstrate the "power swings" and "chops" with heavy batons that are taught to police cadets. "What are you trained to do with your batons?" a defense lawyer asked his client on the stand. "To break bones" was the answer...
...Work is work...you take what you can get in Massachusetts," said Gentry who has been working with Expert Lines for a year. "Times are tough but the pay seemed pretty good...