16 August 2005

iterate or reiterate...?

When a man says, I have found, in all past instances, such sensible qualities, conjoined with such secret powers, and when he says, similar sensible qualities will always be conjoined with similar secret powers, he is not guilty of a tautology, nor are these propositions in any respect the same.

An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume

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