Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley: EssaysD. Appleton, 1896 - 319 páginas |
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... contrary , you are animated by the much rarer desire for real knowledge ; if you want to get a clear conception of the deepest problems set before the intellect of man , there is no need , so far as I can see , for you to go beyond the ...
... contrary , you are animated by the much rarer desire for real knowledge ; if you want to get a clear conception of the deepest problems set before the intellect of man , there is no need , so far as I can see , for you to go beyond the ...
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... contrary , they exhibit examples of personal corruption and of political profligacy as fine as any hotbed of despotism has ever produced ; while they fail in the primary duty of the administra- tion of justice , as none but an effete ...
... contrary , they exhibit examples of personal corruption and of political profligacy as fine as any hotbed of despotism has ever produced ; while they fail in the primary duty of the administra- tion of justice , as none but an effete ...
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... contrary authority of all the good company in town . " If the " good company in town " bore down the first three of these charges , it is to be hoped , for the sake of their veracity , that they knew their candidate chiefly as the very ...
... contrary authority of all the good company in town . " If the " good company in town " bore down the first three of these charges , it is to be hoped , for the sake of their veracity , that they knew their candidate chiefly as the very ...
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... force is by no means universally admitted . On the contrary , the necessity for a proper pyscho- logical and physiological training to the student of philosophy is denied , on the one hand , I 61 OBJECT AND SCOPE OF PHILOSOPHY.
... force is by no means universally admitted . On the contrary , the necessity for a proper pyscho- logical and physiological training to the student of philosophy is denied , on the one hand , I 61 OBJECT AND SCOPE OF PHILOSOPHY.
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... contrary method , and , avoiding all dis- tant and high inquiries , confines itself to common life , and to such subjects as fall under daily practice and experience ; leaving the more sublime topics to the embellishment of poets and ...
... contrary method , and , avoiding all dis- tant and high inquiries , confines itself to common life , and to such subjects as fall under daily practice and experience ; leaving the more sublime topics to the embellishment of poets and ...
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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.