----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Mat, In Hume's Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature, reprinted with an introduction by Keynes and Piero Sraffa, we find on p. 14, "whatever we conceive is possible, at least in a metaphysical sense: but wherever a demonstration takes place, the contrary is impossible and implies a contradiction". David Andrews [log in to unmask] ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]