File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1996/96-07-25.211, message 144


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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