Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 01:23:44 -0600 From: jlnich1-AT-service1.uky.edu (jln) Subject: Re[2]: Wittgenstein > According to Hume, there really isn't any "room for > doubting" because assocaitions are so automatic; there is > only room for doubt if one supposes that reason is > infallible, or that "demonstrations of reason" are conducted > through an infallible faculty, which is precisely the view > he is trying to disestablish by posing a 'skeptical > solution'. I am only guilty of assuming your familiarity > with the problem. Joe, I don't think I am following here. I just finished book 1 of the Treatise and I got no sense that Hume was trying to disestablish anything but reason itself. I certainly didn't get the part about no room for doubting; rather, I got the sense that there is no room for beleiving. Am I missing the skeptical solution. Jeff
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