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Word: hume (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example: "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked. "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening the essay with: "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived then he was repersentative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

...Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." (Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

...York Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Photographer David Hume Kennerly heard the bulletin in Miami early Sunday morning: a Congressman had been killed on a remote jungle airstrip in Guyana. Neff and Kennerly, who had worked together in Saigon, were en route to another assignment in South America, but they chartered a jet and were in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, by nightfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 4, 1978 | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...England Baroque Ensemble performs Purcell, Tomkins, and Hume. At Dunster House Library, F-Entry, at 5:30 p.m. Free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: Oct. 26-Nov. 1 | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

...baroque and classical enthusiasts, the New England Baroque Ensemble plays Purcell, Tomkins and Hume at Dunster House Library on Friday at 5:30 p.m. Also, the Cambridge Society for Early Music presents a concert of Mozart led by Michel Piquet on Monday evening at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre; tickets are at $7, $5, and $3 at the door. Call 247-1465. Finally, Robert and Catherine Strizich and Sandra Hammond play works of Foscarini, de Visee and Goultier in Gallery Gig at the Museum of Fine Arts (Gallery II-51). The lute, guitar and dance festivities begin...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: Banking on the Right Notes | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

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