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Philo's Final Conclusion in Hume's Dialogues1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. G. Vink
Affiliation:
Lelystad, The Netherlands

Extract

‘Truly this is the sweetest of theologies’, William said, with perfect humility, and I thought he was using that insidious figure of thought that rhetors call irony, which must always be prefaced by the pronunciatio, representing its signal and its justification – something William never did. For which reason the abbot, more inclined to the use of figures of speech, took William literally…

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