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Argument from queerness (Mackie)

 
 
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Reply Fri 3 Dec, 2004 09:27 am
Letty: Sorry, I missed your post. You can learn more about David Hume here.

thethinkfactory wrote:
Funny Joe - I introduced my students to Hume the other say and talked about the uobservable causal nexus. Thier heads started smoking.

Then you've done your job well.

thethinkfactory wrote:
It seems, by the way, that sub atomic physics shows that Hume was basically right.

Empirical evidence cannot show that Hume was right. That was Hume's point.
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