Word: hume
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...Ottawa University in Kansas. Angell, whose nomination has been urged by Kansas Senator Robert Dole, has a firsthand understanding of the credit crunch in the farm belt. He is a part-time farmer, and, together with his brother, owns a small bank in Pleasanton, Kans., and a second in Hume...
TIME Photographer David Hume Kennerly took the cover picture for this issue and many of the other photos for the story (including an exclusive one of Baby Max and his proud parents). Says he: "I don't recall dealing with anybody, in government and politics or in Hollywood, who was as cooperative as Spielberg. He is a very private person who doesn't normally allow the press into his life. And he was extremely busy. But he constantly took time...
...film's heroes are, after all, a half- century closer to death than its audience is. Art (Don Ameche), Ben (Wilford Brimley) and Joe (Hume Cronyn) are not mopes or sticks or hypochondriacs, but they know that their time has nearly elapsed, that their body clocks are running down, that pleasures of the flesh are now memories or might-have-beens. So their transformation into rakehells is both joyous and poignant. It is delicious to watch Ameche, 77, Cronyn, 73, and Brimley, 50 (but he can pass for old), kicking up dust as the stars of a geezer's Porky...
...takes on Hobbes, Hume and others for asserting that the human mind fundamentally is a sensory organ, rather than an instrument that can also intellectualize. He dismasts Darwin for categorizing man as simply an animal with higher sensory perceptions, rather than an organism that, alone among living creations, can conceive such abstractions as right and wrong. Adler is equally hard on determinists like Marx on grounds that if all consequences are predetermined, then no man can be held responsible for his acts...
...defined in classic philosophy. He has no patience with any suggestion that these truths may be simply old opinions. "If philosophy were mere opinion," he writes, "there would be no philosophical mistakes." The fact that his own Great Books program at Britannica is chockablock with the works of Locke, Hume, Darwin and the others is, to Adler, no mistake at all. "It is important to know errors," he says. "A full understanding of truth is to understand the errors it corrects...