Originally Posted by
Elro
Originally Posted by
Phaedrus
By the way, David Hume is not Alpha. He is clearly Gamma.
How so? I'm not convinced he's Alpha, but I'm not sure why he would be Gamma, either.
What do you associate with David Hume? What do you associate with Gamma?
On of the most central aspects of Hume's philosophy is his
empiricism, and empiricism in itself is much more Gamma than Alpha. Empiricism is
.
Hume questions everything, and asks for empiricial evidence of our beliefs. His perspective is
externalist in the sense I described in my previous post. He is looking at humans from a natural science, Te-based, perspective as
objects.
Compare Hume's perspective with Kant's, and you'll see the difference. Kant
does not view humans as objects, he sees them as
agents. My hypothesis is that this is one of the most central and fundamental differences between Te and Ti philosophies. (One of the biggest problems with the hypothesis is Albert Einstein, who had a clearly accentuated externalist perspective, despite the fact that he is usually type as ENTp.)
Hume also has a strongly accentuated
critical attitude, and Gamma is much more critical than Alpha.
Does that suffice to convince you? Please comment and/or ask more questions if you want.