[lit-ideas] Re: Interpretation and Elision

Robert Paul wrote:

"So, maybe those who think that it's interpretations all the way down
are right, for something like the reasons Hume gives when he argues that
no amount of propositions about the past entails any proposition about
the future, and that no amount of propositions about what is entails
anything about what ought to be."


So, stopping for a stop sign is an interpretation?  Of what?  The
physical sign?  Traffic rules?  Culture?  When I stub my toe against a
rock and say 'Ow!', is that an interpretation?  Of what?  The rock?  My
toe?  The pain?   I just don't get what it means to say that it's
interpretations all the way down.

Sincerely,

Phil Enns
Toronto, ON



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