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...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...
...essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philospher, 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 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...
...sordid tale does not end there. Several weeks later, while watching TV at the home of a female admirer, I was shocked to see my script performed virtually word for word. Only the vaguest attempt had been made to disguise its true source: the setting had been changed from the Soviet Union to the United States, the admiring allusions to myself had been taken out, and the title had been changed, unimaginatively, from Rusha to Amerika...
...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 realy 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...
There is only the vaguest idea of a military mission to accomplish: from the platoon's point of view, and ours, their only objective is to emerge from the jungle at the end of the day with arms and legs and life intact. Men die in brutal and unexpected ways, booby-trapped, shot from the treeline. The survivors of each attack shake with terror and rage. Their friends die at the hands of an invisible enemy who always seems to be a step ahead...