Follow-up: Hume's Law
Mar. 28th, 2008 12:22 amI'm very interested to see the responses to people having heard of Hume's Fork. It came to mind because it was an implicit assumption in some witterings about truth I had a while back, but the comments made me think it wasn't as necessarily as clear cut as it had sounded.
And then lately, I was fascinated to came across the description on wikipedia covering approximately exactly what I'd wondered myself, and couldn't decide to be annoyed that I should obviously have done some more reading on what philosophers had already thought about before thinking myself, or pleased that I came up with/synthesised from current culture the same ideas and that they were hence obviously relevant.
However, what I meant to ask about but failed was Hume's Law. Can anyone oblige with another poll "Have you heard of Hume's Law?". Thank you! Answers might be "Heard of it", "Heard of the concept but didn't know the name" and "not specifically heard of the concept but it sounds obvious"
And then lately, I was fascinated to came across the description on wikipedia covering approximately exactly what I'd wondered myself, and couldn't decide to be annoyed that I should obviously have done some more reading on what philosophers had already thought about before thinking myself, or pleased that I came up with/synthesised from current culture the same ideas and that they were hence obviously relevant.
However, what I meant to ask about but failed was Hume's Law. Can anyone oblige with another poll "Have you heard of Hume's Law?". Thank you! Answers might be "Heard of it", "Heard of the concept but didn't know the name" and "not specifically heard of the concept but it sounds obvious"