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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 bluebook 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...
...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 these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...
...observers savored the irony of a stone thrower whose glass house was shattering. "Most Americans didn't fall for his ruse about kicking 'the media,'" says media analyst Ellen Hume. "He is the media. On the drug issue, we could give him the benefit of the doubt. But why give him a fairness clause that he denies others? Rush's way is to rush to judgment, regardless of the facts. Now it's his turn to be judged." And his turn to hope that the judges may be just a little bit...liberal. --Reported by Sean Gregory/New York...