Dear Candice
It's good to see many biotext postings coming through
and I'll have a go at one myself anon. I've always been
a bit allergic to entirely lowercase unpunctuated writings
but all in a good cause... Why not? And I'll try not to mention
anything sporting.
best
Hugh
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Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: biotext project 3
> Thanks to everyone who's posted a biotext so far (great material!),
> but could we please reserve this heading for those texts alone? Not
> to discourage responses like Colin's here--on the contrary, it's
> very interesting--but rather to ask that they be given their own
> subject lines ("Hume," e.g., in this case). Thanks--Candice
>
>
> At 09:28 PM 9/17/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >Ah, Hume - I've stood in his grave in Edinburgh many a time; indeed,
getting
> >through there as often as I can my pleasures in this direction find
> >themselves consummated often. Anyhow, Schopenhauer - rarely a man to get
> >things 'a point' - caught Hume up short by perfectly describing his error
as
> >that of all Empiricists, as beginning with the object and finding the
self
> >all horribly dissolved, a set of things gathered up only by a feat of
> >illusion; and, conversely, the error of Rationalists as beginning with
the
> >self and finding the object a difficult, tenuous thing hidden beneath the
> >curtains of language and category, a great train of filtration before it
> >reached the high self of ego. Unbalancing act as far as I have seen.
> >
> >A good piece nonetheless
> >
> >
> >
>
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