Follow-up: Hume's Law

[jack]

I'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"

Comments

[angoel.livejournal.com]

Done

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (http://angoel.livejournal.com/73155.html) And good point about the "yes, but not before..." I forgot to specify that.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Jack, are you really so near the povety line that you can't afford to do LJ polls yourself?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Good point. I resisted getting a paid account out of some principles I can't remember (probably that the way things are advertised made me feel anyone wanting one is an emo icon-obsessed teenager who can't write poll scripts?). But I definitely feel I owe the company something for the service they've provided by now, so I should sign up for a paid account before I leave.

But it would probably have been more hassle than I wanted this morning.

(Also, there's maybe some annoyance that some people who are as well off as me _are_ so spechul that other people spontaneously anonymously give them paid accounts just for the pleasure of reading their passive-aggressive polls)