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Hume's Atomism about Events: a Response to Ulrich Meyer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2005

Michael Dummett
Affiliation:
Oxford

Abstract

Ulrich Meyer's objections to Dummett's arguments on the time continuum fail because he takes Dummett to endorse Hume's atomistic doctrine that events are ‘loose and separate’, In fact, Dummett rejects this doctrine. He used it in his original article only to indicate that certain implications which are conceptually possible fom the point of view of the classical model of time are not actually conceptually possible.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2005

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