Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley: EssaysD. Appleton, 1896 - 319 páginas |
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Essays Thomas Henry Huxley. HUME CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE : LITERARY AND POLITICAL WRITINGS DAVID HUME was born in Edinburgh on the 26th of April ( O.S. ) , 1711. His parents were then residing in the parish of the Tron church , apparently ...
Essays Thomas Henry Huxley. HUME CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE : LITERARY AND POLITICAL WRITINGS DAVID HUME was born in Edinburgh on the 26th of April ( O.S. ) , 1711. His parents were then residing in the parish of the Tron church , apparently ...
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... Hume died when David was an infant , leaving himself and two elder children , a brother and a sister , to the care of their mother , who is described by David Hume in " My Own Life " as " a woman of singular merit , who though young ...
... Hume died when David was an infant , leaving himself and two elder children , a brother and a sister , to the care of their mother , who is described by David Hume in " My Own Life " as " a woman of singular merit , who though young ...
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... David Hume appears to have owed little to schools or universities . There is some evidence that he entered the Greek class in the University of Edinburgh in 1723 - when he was a boy of twelve years of age - but it is not known how long ...
... David Hume appears to have owed little to schools or universities . There is some evidence that he entered the Greek class in the University of Edinburgh in 1723 - when he was a boy of twelve years of age - but it is not known how long ...
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... David talked in this strain to his mother her tongue probably gave utterance to " Bless the bairn ! " and , in her private soul , the epithet " wake - minded " may then have recorded itself . But , though few lonely , thoughtful ...
... David talked in this strain to his mother her tongue probably gave utterance to " Bless the bairn ! " and , in her private soul , the epithet " wake - minded " may then have recorded itself . But , though few lonely , thoughtful ...
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... David Hume , aged twenty - three , without a profession or any assured means of earning a guinea ; and having doubtless , by his apparent vacillation , but real tenacity of purpose , once more earned the title of " wake - minded " at ...
... David Hume , aged twenty - three , without a profession or any assured means of earning a guinea ; and having doubtless , by his apparent vacillation , but real tenacity of purpose , once more earned the title of " wake - minded " at ...
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Página 250 - ... 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 155 - But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life, because that has never been observed in any age or country.
Página 72 - As to the first question, we may observe that what we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations, and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.
Página 16 - We are therefore to look upon all the vast apparatus of our government, as having ultimately no other object or purpose but the distribution of justice, or in other words, the support of the Twelve Judges. Kings and parliaments, fleets and armies, officers of the court and revenue, ambassadors, ministers and privy councillors, are all subordinate in their end to this part of administration.
Página 160 - For, first, there is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men of such unquestioned good sense, education, and learning as to secure us against all delusion in themselves; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others...
Página 137 - 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 193 - 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 9 - I went over to France, with a view of prosecuting my studies in a country retreat; and I there laid that plan of life, which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature.
Página 193 - 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.
Página 218 - 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. Now this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to every one who is not a prisoner and in chains. Here, then, is no subject of dispute.