John Passmore on Hume: Section 2

[5dsdouglas]

Thank you for the videos

[avolynskiy]

Thank You very much for such extraordinary plausible pieces of video.

[arn123321]

plausible?

[TwoMunchu]

Humes Fork:-

When approaching a body of knowledge for the first time one must ask oneself two main questions:

Do the ideas concern matters of fact or

Do they concern the relations between ideas

If the answer to both these questions is no, then commit these writings to the flames because they can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

Does this mean we need to hold a book burning party for your philosophical writings Mr Hume?

[Myndir]

Only if they're not claiming to be about facts, which they are.

[mohamedbongfish]

no, i think its a metaphor

[glamdringwhite03]

@TwoMunchu lol you should ask him that when he's alive

[Paraconsistant]

@TwoMunchu You're an idiot.

[Organon1m]

I recall the animated Aasimov film, Light Years: "The 'I' does not exist!"

[lysis28]

Love Prof. Passmore's old-school Australian accent. Also enjoyed his none-too-subtle jibe at "what passes now as literary criticism" (6' 06"). Hahaha.

[theinternetscholar]

3:40, the social-sciences . . .

I agree, how can you fully describe and experience or how do you describe to someone who hasn't experienced. . . there are never enough words, or at least the words are not as pure/clear as the ideas they want to protray

[rogermoore27]

I am enjoying these interviews tremendously.