[lit-ideas] Re: Bishop Berkeley -- and Popper
- From: Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Paul)
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 08 Nov 2004 15:13:40 PST
Professor Yost (have we met?) cites David Hume:
'Knowledge of cause and effect is not a priori, but experiential, so if
you have heard one tree fall, you've heard 'em all, or at least you can
infer the sound.'
Professor Yost seems to have been misled by the Fallacy of Ennui, first
identified by the late J-P Sartre, who, as every schoolchild knows, wrote, in
_La chemin de fer de la vie_, 'Chaque jour c'est la meme chose, et chaque chose
c'est la meme jour, donc, les jours n'ont pas du signification.' That this was a
fallacy was first noted by A. N. Whitehead in 'Sartre and Sufficiency' (Mind
n.s. 1947)
Robert Paul
Professor of Billiards
Mutton College
Sheepskin, Nebraska
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
