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Philo's Final Conclusion in Hume's Dialogues1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. G. Vink
A. G. Vink
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Lelystad, The Netherlands
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‘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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Religious Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 1989, pp. 489 - 499
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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