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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the world "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artiul Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince CRIMSON-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
Just exactly what our equivocator's answer to do with the original question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but news on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes the right answer is known and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never get definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...
...long run the expert in the use of the unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It's absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all its intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strike 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 certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...