I have never had much patience with thewriters who claim from the reader an effort to under-stand their meaning. You have only to go tothe great philosophers to see that it is possibleto express with lucidity the most...I have never had much patience with thewriters who claim from the reader an effort to under-stand their meaning. You have only to go tothe great philosophers to see that it is possibleto express with lucidity the most subtle reflections.You may find it difficult to understand the thoughtof Hume, and if you have no philosophical train-ing its implications will doubtless escape you;but no one with any education at all can fail tounderstand exactly what the meaning of each sen-tence is. Few people have written English withmore grace than Berkeley. There are two sortsof obscurity that you find in writers. One展开更多
文摘I have never had much patience with thewriters who claim from the reader an effort to under-stand their meaning. You have only to go tothe great philosophers to see that it is possibleto express with lucidity the most subtle reflections.You may find it difficult to understand the thoughtof Hume, and if you have no philosophical train-ing its implications will doubtless escape you;but no one with any education at all can fail tounderstand exactly what the meaning of each sen-tence is. Few people have written English withmore grace than Berkeley. There are two sortsof obscurity that you find in writers. One
