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Ideas for 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life', 'Lectures 1930-32 (student notes)' and 'Enquiry Conc Human Understanding'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers

13602	We cannot form an idea of a 'power', and the word is without meaning [Hume]
	Full Idea: We can have no idea of connexion or power at all, and these words are absolutely without any meaning.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], 7.2.58)
	A reaction: I would say that this ignores a phenomenon of which Hume is well aware, which is the power of our own minds to generate thoughts and actions. Hume seems to be employing a verificationist theory of meaning

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 5. Universals as Concepts

18715	Using 'green' is a commitment to future usage of 'green' [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: If I say this is green, I must say that other things are green too. I am committed to a future usage.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Lectures 1930-32 (student notes) [1931], B VI.2)
	A reaction: This seems to suggest that the eternal verity of a universal concept is just a convention of stability in a language.