>Last time I checked, Hume's price-specie flow model is still taught in
>university economics classes to measure price and money supply dynamics
>under a gold standard. Not a bad concoction for someone whose "universe"
>implies that "identities in general are fiction, subject only to customs."
>Do
>Hume is just saying that it's impossible to rationally demonstrate that,
>because X has always followed Y in the past, it will do so in the future.
>
>This is a bit far afield of pen-l, though, I suppose.
>
>Ben
Not so afield of PEN-L, in that Hume's philosophy -- his view that
there are no
anly
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From: Ted Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Michael Hoover quotes Louse Antony on Hume:
>
Michael Hoover quotes Louse Antony on Hume:
> Hume's 'skeptical solution' to his own problem amounted to an abandonment
> of the externalist hopes of his time. Belief in induction, he concluded,
> was a custom, a tendency of mind ingrained by nature, one of a 'species
> of natural instincts, whi
& the Postmodern Grin without a Cat (was Re: pomoistas)
Sam wrote to Nicole:
>Check out David Hume:
>
>"When we run over our libraries persuaded of these principles, what
>havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or
>school metaphysics, for inst
> One thing that always struck me is that second-generation
> postmodernists (& later models) seldom exhibit any familiarity with
> primary philosophical texts (Plato, Kant, Rousseau, Hegel, etc.) on
> which first-generation postmodernists -- Derrida & Co. -- make
> endless marginal comments.
>How could they take him seriously? He writes rather plain English
>intelligible to any educated reader. No one needs to go through initiatory
>rites of reading thick and complex prose and search through the thickets for
>some speck of sense. Postmodernism as a cultural phenomenom is inconsistent
with the style of the likes of Locke, Hume, or even Berkeley.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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>So why haven't post-modernists taken Hume seriously? Especially
>since a lot of what I read from them sounds like it was cribbed from
>Hume?
>
>Brad DeLong
I don't know, but here's my speculation:
1. Presenting postmodernism as a reworking of Hume would diminish
its claim to novelty, origin
Sam wrote to Nicole:
>Check out David Hume:
>
>"When we run over our libraries persuaded of these principles, what
>havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or
>school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask Does it contain any
>abstract reasoning concerning quantity or nu
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