...Concerning Human Understanding, Hume says: If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school of metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, does it contain...flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.27 Hume further argues that it is not possible to, have any impression of God. Therefore,...

...of meaningful expression, and admonished his readers as follows: "If we take in our hands any volume let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning...flames; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."8 In the nineteenth century, JS Mill was unable to make sense of words for physical objects...

...\\lien we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics,...number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning conceroing matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it men to the flames: for it can contain nothing...

..."When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics,...concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain and experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence'1. No. Commit it then to the flames:...

...in our hand any volume; of divinity or school meraphysics, for insrance; let us ask. Docs it conrain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?...matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the Hames: for it can conrain nothing but sophistry and illusion. Hume thus proposes two criteria for meaningfulness:...

...but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics,...contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or nnntber?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?"...

...When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics,...contain nothing but sophistry and illusion (Hume, 1758, Section XII, part 3). Empiricism, rationalism and positivism 141 ct i According to its own criteria,...

...famously closes the Inquiry concerning Human Understanding with this injunction: "If we take in our hand any volume— of divinity or school metaphysics,...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion" (173). Enough with the flames already! Note that he, too, invokes the image as part of a justification...

...by this time (1748) must have been somewhat old hat within intellectual circles: If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics,...flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.18 It might be supposed that incineration just takes the disposal of waste - begun with the...

...not based on immediate sensory experience can be set aside as false. Hume argued: "If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics,...flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."118 If taken seriously, Hume's critique would eliminate his own philosophy considering that...