Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley: EssaysD. Appleton, 1896 - 319 páginas |
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... thought are to be primarily , in motherwit , seconda stance . Trained by the best educat teenth century , the Jesuits ; nat with a dialectic grasp and subtle they could hardly improve ; and for getting at the truth , which e hardly ...
... thought are to be primarily , in motherwit , seconda stance . Trained by the best educat teenth century , the Jesuits ; nat with a dialectic grasp and subtle they could hardly improve ; and for getting at the truth , which e hardly ...
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... thought , so far as it is positive , fails on account of its neglect to criticise its assumptions ; so far as it is negative , it fails , because it forgets that proof of the inconsistencies of the terms in which we symbolise things has ...
... thought , so far as it is positive , fails on account of its neglect to criticise its assumptions ; so far as it is negative , it fails , because it forgets that proof of the inconsistencies of the terms in which we symbolise things has ...
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... thought I might undertake the business , without too much presumption ; also , with some hope of passing on to others the benefits which I had received from the study of Hume's works . And , however imperfect the attempt may be , I have ...
... thought I might undertake the business , without too much presumption ; also , with some hope of passing on to others the benefits which I had received from the study of Hume's works . And , however imperfect the attempt may be , I have ...
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... with the manner in which three of the greatest masters of the English language have handled that noble instrument of thought . T H. HUXLEY . HODESLEA , EASTBOURNE , January , 1894 . A CONTENTS HUME PART I. - HUME'S LIFE . I EARLY xü ...
... with the manner in which three of the greatest masters of the English language have handled that noble instrument of thought . T H. HUXLEY . HODESLEA , EASTBOURNE , January , 1894 . A CONTENTS HUME PART I. - HUME'S LIFE . I EARLY xü ...
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... thought his devotion to philosophy and poverty to be due to mere infirmity of purpose . But she lived till 1749 , long enough to see more than the dawn of her son's literary fame and official im- portance , and probably changed her mind ...
... thought his devotion to philosophy and poverty to be due to mere infirmity of purpose . But she lived till 1749 , long enough to see more than the dawn of her son's literary fame and official im- portance , and probably changed her mind ...
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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.