...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?"...

...of meaningful expression, and admonished his readers as follows: "If we take in our hands any volume let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning...number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing...

...to David Hume, particularly his caustic comments in his Enquity concerning Human Understonding.™ When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we cake in our hand any volume; of divinity or school meraphysics, for insrance; let us ask. Docs it conrain...

...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...

...demonstration are quantity and number. ... All other enquiries of men regard only matter of fact and existence When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,...number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existences' No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing...

...arguments from its cause or its effect; and these arguments are founded entirely on experience . . . When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,...number* No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence* No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing...

...Salomon is a library! (Ray ward, 2004, p. 119). Another main figure in the history of empiricism wrote: When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,...number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing...

...concerning Human Understanding, S. 35 f.) Hume, Eine Untersuchung über den menschlichen Verstand, S. 207. („When we run over libraries, persuaded of these...metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstraft reasoning concerning quantity or numberf No. Does it contain any experimental rtasoning conceming...

...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...number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing...