Hume’s Finite Geometry: A Reply to Mark Pressman

Hume Studies 26 (1):183-185 (2000)
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In “Hume on Geometry and Infinite Divisibility in the Treatise”, H. Mark Pressman charges that “the geometry Hume presents in the Treatise faces a serious set of problems”. This may well be; however, at least one of the charges Pressman levels against Hume invokes a false dichotomy, and a second rests on a non sequitur.

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10.1353/hms.2011.0301

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