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...Hume, a renowned journalist, is currently a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. me she'd tried to kill President Ford because she wanted to prove herself a real radical instead of being an FBI phony spying on the Bay Area's radical movement. Flying to Cambodia in the back of a cargo plane on Thanksgiving Day, 1979, I saw the Khmer Rouge's just-vacated torture chambers, the pits of bones, the killing fields. At the Three Mile Island nuclear accident I thought we all were going...
...tricky part about having your dreams come true is making them mean what they were supposed to mean when you dreamed them in the first place.Crimson File PhotoELLEN H. HUME...
...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 conditions 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...