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Bouncing back from her 1-2 performance in the women's earlier 15-1 loss to Cornell, Lowry fenced with her usual authority and decisiveness. She disposed of Jill Peacock and Connie Hume by 5-2 scores, using her favorite quick, high lunge to gather easy touches. She had more difficulty with Beth Feldman and Beth Merritt; but she edged both, 5-4, finishing off the former by disentangling her blade after missing with a low lunge then jabbing Feldman below the neck...
Against the much taller Connie Hume she readjusted her game well to tie the score, 3-3, after falling behind, 3-0, then appeared to lose her concentration as she lost...
...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 the 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 repersentative 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 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 of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...