HumeMacmillan, 1879 - 208 páginas |
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... existence of rival or inimical nations furnishes " kings and parliaments , fleets and armies , " with a good deal of occupation beyond the sup- port of the twelve judges ; and , though the proposition that the State has no business to ...
... existence of rival or inimical nations furnishes " kings and parliaments , fleets and armies , " with a good deal of occupation beyond the sup- port of the twelve judges ; and , though the proposition that the State has no business to ...
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... existence on the performance of the functions of particular bodily organs . There is no seeing without eyes , and no hearing without ears . If the origin of the contents of the mind is truly a philosophical problem , then the ...
... existence on the performance of the functions of particular bodily organs . There is no seeing without eyes , and no hearing without ears . If the origin of the contents of the mind is truly a philosophical problem , then the ...
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... existence ; and that is the momentary consciousness we call a present thought or feeling ; that is safe , even if all other kinds of certainty are merely more or less probable inferences . Berkeley and Locke , each in his way , ap ...
... existence ; and that is the momentary consciousness we call a present thought or feeling ; that is safe , even if all other kinds of certainty are merely more or less probable inferences . Berkeley and Locke , each in his way , ap ...
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... existence by impressions , made upon the sensitive faculty by a material world of real objects , of which our sensations are supposed to give us pictures ; others , such as the memory and the reasoning faculty , are considered to be ...
... existence by impressions , made upon the sensitive faculty by a material world of real objects , of which our sensations are supposed to give us pictures ; others , such as the memory and the reasoning faculty , are considered to be ...
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... existence . It is perfectly conceivable that a sentient being should have no sense but vision , and that he should have spent his existence in absolute darkness , with the exception of one solitary flash of red light . That momentary ...
... existence . It is perfectly conceivable that a sentient being should have no sense but vision , and that he should have spent his existence in absolute darkness , with the exception of one solitary flash of red light . That momentary ...
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Página 139 - 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 116 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe.
Página 165 - when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Página 51 - Tis evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and that however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even mathematics, natural philosophy, and natural religion are in some measure dependent on the science of man, since they lie under the cognizance of men and are judged of by their powers and faculties.
Página 8 - 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 32 - 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. and the earl of Strafford...
Página 115 - That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind.
Página 119 - ... 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 116 - Again, the mathematical postulate that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Página 166 - 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.