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Show Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I: The Humean Conception 95 attempt to universalize an explanatory hypothesis that in fact is incapable of universalization. So the plethora of empirical instances that confirm the psychological profile I have developed here do not undermine the critique unless no counter-instances can be found to disconfirm it. And I have tried in Section 1, above, to demonstrate that this question cannot be settled simply by arbitrarily extending the denotational scope of the term "desire" to include all human motivation. Humpty Dumpty couldn't get away with it, and neither can we. © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin |
