<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Dec 12, 2016, at 4:14 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:24px">If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, </span><i style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:24px">Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?</i><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:24px"> No. </span><i style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:24px">Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?</i><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:24px"> No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. Hume</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Which books on metaphysics have you read? Which would you 'commit' 'to the flames'?</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div></body></html>