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...Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." (Philosophy...
...check the operation of a Vague Generality, take the typical example of "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent with the sprit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies with 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...
Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers plunked herself down in David Gergen's basement office in the West Wing last Monday night and laid out her problem. Just hours before, Clinton had named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, but then abruptly ended a press conference when Brit Hume of ABC News nettled the President with a question about his tortured selection process. Myers told Gergen that she expected the morning to bring good economic news, and was looking for a way to capitalize on that story and make the Rose Garden incident history. Gergen, who served as communications director...
Clinton was cool to Gergen's idea at first but relented after some prodding. He appeared before reporters the next day at noon, and made a cathartic joke at his own expense. "You know what I'm upset about?" he asked the newly married Hume. "You got a honeymoon, and I didn't." As reporters chuckled, Gergen whispered to Myers, "That was perfect." Clinton left the briefing room feeling triumphant. "That was fun," he said to Myers. "We ought to do < more of it, you know...
...issues that matter," he said. The question-and-answer sessions represented a wary revival of Clinton's on- again, off-again truce with the media, which had reached a new low early in the week after Clinton introduced his Supreme Court nominee. When ABC correspondent Brit Hume asked about "a certain zigzag quality" in White House decision making, the President said peevishly, "How you could ask a question like that after the statement she just made is beyond me," then cut off further questions. Clinton mended fences by joking with Hume and other reporters at his later news conferences...