Two Bad Footnotes
I found two rather bad footnotes in student editions of early modern texts this week. Both texts are from the Oxford Philosophical Texts (OPT) series. The first makes a rather contentious historical/interpretive claim, and doesn't seem to recognize that it is doing so; the second is an outright error. The first footnote is in the OPT edition of Hume's first Enquiry. In the course of a critique of occasionalism, Hume writes, It argues more wisdom to contrive at first the fabric of the world with such perfect foresight that, of itself, and by its proper operation, it may serve all...
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David Hume
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Deism
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Divine Attributes
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Divine Necessity
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Existence of God
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G. W. Leibniz
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Historical Thinkers
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Historiography of Philosophy
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Ontological Argument
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Philosophical Theology
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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The Church
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