NOTHING is more usual than for writers, even, on moral, political, or physical subjects, to distinguish between reason and experience, and to suppose, that these species of argumentation are entirely different from each other. The former are taken for the mere result of our intellectual faculties, which, by considering à priori the nature of things, and examining the effects, that must follow from their operation, … Continue reading Hume on the false dichotomy of Reason and Experience
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A Letter on Theory and History
As applied to political practice. I have seen some remarks from different Socialists which seem to place History and Theory in opposition to each other. History, they say, is what really happened: therefore it is superior to Theory. In so far as the word Theory is often (and unfortunately) used to denote any speculative or … Continue reading A Letter on Theory and History