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...Dole is vaguest of all. When told by TIME that he was being identified that way, he still would not be any more specific than he was in an earlier interview. "We need to try to bring people together," he says. "Abortion is not the only issue . I don't believe it will divide...
...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 said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
Jane H. Corlette, who is temporarily filling Shattuck's post, said yesterday she assumed the replacements would be named in the "near future", but really did not have the "vaguest idea" at what point in time the announcements would come...
...replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit 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 said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
They are convinced that Cuba can have the best of both systems: the benefits of socialism and the wealth of the free market. Cuba can succeed where Russia and Eastern Europe have failed. But even these experts have only the vaguest notions of how. "I think we can do it if there is more income for the state," says Monreal. The two envision less central planning but government control over the shape of the economy: a system encompassing private, cooperative and state ownership, all working to the common good. They talk of taxes, salary scales, redundant employment, monetary reform...