might reasonably
be expected in questions
with great eagerness
The book, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume, is (according to https://standardebooks.org/) “A foundational text in empiricism and skepticism”
It was published in English in 1748 under the title Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding until a 1757 edition came up with the now-familiar name.
Mr. Hume’s section Of Liberty and Necessity starts with the sentence, “It might reasonably be expected in questions which have been canvassed and disputed with great eagerness, since the first origin of science and philosophy, that the meaning of all the terms, at least, should have been agreed upon among the disputants; and our enquiries, in the course of two thousand years, been able to pass from words to the true and real subject of the controversy.”
One sentence.
66 words.
97 syllables.
Graded out at a 14.4 on the Flesch-Kincaid readability scale.
And some countless words later, ends with “…if the definition above mentioned be admitted; liberty, when opposed to necessity, not to constraint, is the same thing with chance; which is universally allowed to have no existence.”
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I value liberty.
So, by necessity, I am voting for Harris.
Lots of words to the true and real subject of the controversy.
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