Hume, with Helps to the Study of BerkeleyD. Appleton, 1914 - 321 páginas |
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... things which are equal to the same are equal to one another , is only a particular case of the predication of similarity ; if there were no impressions , it is obvious that there could be no predicates . But what is an existence in the ...
... things which are equal to the same are equal to one another , is only a particular case of the predication of similarity ; if there were no impressions , it is obvious that there could be no predicates . But what is an existence in the ...
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acquainted action admitted affirm animals appears argument arise belief Berkeley body brain cause and effect centaur ceptions common complex idea conceive concerning consciousness constant conjunction contrary David Hume Deity Descartes doctrine doubt Edinburgh ence epithelium Essay event evidence existence expectation experience external fact faculty Faculty of Advocates feeling give rise Henry Home Hume Hume's imagination impossible impressions innate innate ideas Inquiry John Hill Burton justice Kant knowledge less Lord Charlemont mankind material matter means memory ment mental phenomena metaphysical mind miracle mode of motion moral nature ness never Noumenon object observation olfactory operations pain passage passions perceive perceptions philosopher pleasure present principles proposition psychology qualities question reason relation relations of ideas religion seems sensation sensorium simple sions solidity sophisms soul Spinoza substance succession suppose T. H. HUXLEY tactile theism things thought tion touch Treatise truth volition words
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Página 254 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit...
Página 167 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person which subverts all the principles of his understanding and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Página 217 - Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature...
Página 257 - The particular bulk, number, figure, and motion of the parts of fire, or snow, are really in them, whether any one's senses perceive them or no ; and, therefore, they may be called real qualities, because they really exist in those bodies. But light, heat, whiteness, or coldness, are no more really in them, than sickness or pain is in manna. Take away the sensation of them ; let not the eyes see light or colours, nor the ears hear sounds ; let the palate not taste, nor the nose smell ; and all coilours,...
Página 13 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press* without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Página 65 - We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men's behaviour in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures.
Página 144 - ... twill be easy for us to conceive any object to be non-existent this moment, and existent the next, without conjoining to it the distinct idea of a cause or productive principle.
Página 222 - By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may.
Página 39 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, Churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I.
Página 196 - The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley Collected essays by T. H. Huxley, v. VI |
| Autor | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Editor | D. Appleton, 1914 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 18 Mar 2008 |
| Largo | 321 páginas |
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