Word: hume
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...illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't' just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," Like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid links of pseudofacts...
...Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." (Philosophy...
...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 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 he lived then he was 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...
...Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor) Researchers: Dorothy Affa Ames, Martha Bardach, Sarah Buffum, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Cynthia Johnson, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor) Researchers: Dorothy Affa Ames, Martha Bardach, Sarah Buffum, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Cynthia Johnson, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...