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...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 his essay with 'David Hume represent the spirit of his essay with, 'David Hume, the greatest 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 what Hume really said...
...mask in this probing century. Lawrence, having finished the private edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in 1922, tried to lose his identity. Though he had been a colonel at war's end, he enlisted in the R.A.F. as a private soldier under the assumed name of John Hume Ross. In four months the secret was out, and Lawrence was booted out of the service. The next year he was allowed to enlist in the Tank Corps as T. E. Shaw, later transferring to the R.A.F...
With diffident grace, as "an Oxford man with an uncertain academic record." Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home. 57, the 14th Earl of Home (pronounced Hume), last week accepted an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. "Amid winds of change, he labors with sure lucidity for community among nations." said the citation. In a Harvard speech, in another in Chicago, in private talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Washington, Lord Home was getting across to Americans what the British have already learned to their considerable surprise: in less than a year on the job. Home has emerged as the strongest British...
Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Called "C3H3(NO3)3," which means nitroglycerin, this is the story of a high school teacher (Hume Cronyn) who misplaces some...