Word: hume
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...tricky the job is, I am delighted that she is learning the political landscape before she sets off the land mines. I think she deserves a great deal of credit, help and as much time as she needs as a "newcomer"--in order to make lasting progress here. Ellen Hume '68 Executive Director, Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
...Didn't Cover: Although we have an insatiable fondness for press releases and other media events, this one somehow escaped our ever-vigilant attention. But we report it here, in the hopes that it will not go forgotten in the annals of Harvard history. The story is that Ellen Hume, executive director of the Shorenstein-Barone Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy and former Wall Street Journal reporter extraordinaire, took Cybill Shepherd (you know, the TV star) to lunch at the Faculty Club on Wednesday. We're not sure what to make of this event, but it might have...
...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...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of condition around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
...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 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...