...and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or...contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or nnntber?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?"...

...in our hand any volume; of divinity or school meraphysics, for insrance; let us ask. Docs it conrain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?...matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the Hames: for it can conrain nothing but sophistry and illusion. Hume thus proposes two criteria for meaningfulness:...

...empiricist's mind-set rather well. "If we take in our hand any volume: of, say, divinity or school of metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity of number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?...

...outside these categories, and hence, impossible. In Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume says: 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...

...with Hume as well. He famously closes the Inquiry concerning Human Understanding with this injunction: "If we take in our hand any volume— of divinity...flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion" (173). Enough with the flames already! Note that he, too, invokes the image as part of a...

...contains beliefs not based on immediate sensory experience can be set aside as false. Hume argued: "If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or...flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."118 If taken seriously, Hume's critique would eliminate his own philosophy considering that...

...got rid of, which by this time (1748) must have been somewhat old hat within intellectual circles: If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school...flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.18 It might be supposed that incineration just takes the disposal of waste - begun with the...

...empiricism wrote: 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 (Hume, 1758, Section XII, part 3). Empiricism, rationalism and positivism 141 ct i According...

...fact and existence 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...experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existences' No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.21...

...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...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning master of fact and experience? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry...