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tendencies; and as the author of it, I have been been set down
in one History of Philosophy as a sceptic, and
in another criticism of my opinions I have
been called a second Hume. It is strange to me
that it should not have occured to those writers
that a person who thinks that as soon as it
is fully proved that holding that the going upon any given proposition
will be salutory, it is proved
that all that proposition can possibly mean
is true, as more likely, on account of this opinion, I believe will rather be led by this opinion to believe
more things than fewer.
At the same time it is obvious enough that it
is a doctrine that may very easily be carried to extremes,
if one does not mind one's logic very closely
It is like walking among eggs. I do not