...experience . . . When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence* No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry...

...Verstand, S. 207. („When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or...metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstraft reasoning concerning quantity or numberf No. Does it contain any experimental rtasoning conceming...

...He became, in a manner of speaking, a book-burner, saying of any work that seemed to him unreliable, "Commit it then to the flames. For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."14 One can sense the exultation with which logical positivists tell us that there is nothing...

...instinct, then it is contrary to reason, if rested on reason then it is contrary to natural instincts. If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quality or number? No. Does it contain...

...Vienna Circle: When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school of metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity...

...that kind of experiential support. It is in this way that Hume arrives at his dramatic conclusion: If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or...flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. (12.34 / 165) From Hume's perspective, only reasoning of the two types he has just identified...

...delusion" (Bio). In fact, in the last paragraph of the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume writes: If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or...flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. nursed and developed." So although Hume showed that metaphysical knowledge could not be justified...

...metaphysics and theology: When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or...flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. 29 Hume therefore makes a distinction between science and non-science (metaphysics). In substance,...

...(1748): When we run over libraries persuaded of these [empirical] principles what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school...concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it to the flames for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. According to Hume, then, there...

...Understanding, p. 25. This distinction was operative in one of the most famous passages in his work: "If we take in our hand any volume, of divinity or...experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and experience? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."...