Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley: EssaysD. Appleton, 1896 - 319 páginas |
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... tactile sensation , which is a state of our own consciousness , is unhesitatingly referred to the end of the stick ; and yet no one will say that it is there . Let us now suppose that , instead of one pin's point resting against the end ...
... tactile sensation , which is a state of our own consciousness , is unhesitatingly referred to the end of the stick ; and yet no one will say that it is there . Let us now suppose that , instead of one pin's point resting against the end ...
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... tactile sensation is referred to a point either of the natural sensory surface itself , or of some solid in continuity with that surface . Hence it would appear that the conception of the difference between the Ego and the non - Ego ...
... tactile sensation is referred to a point either of the natural sensory surface itself , or of some solid in continuity with that surface . Hence it would appear that the conception of the difference between the Ego and the non - Ego ...
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... tactile surface itself moves , cannot be given by touch alone , which is competent to testify only to the fact of change of place , not to its cause . The idea of the motion of the tactile surface could not , in fact , be attained ...
... tactile surface itself moves , cannot be given by touch alone , which is competent to testify only to the fact of change of place , not to its cause . The idea of the motion of the tactile surface could not , in fact , be attained ...
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... tactile sensations , with all their accompaniments , remain exactly as they were . But , at the same time ... tactile sensations . And , in consequence of the incessant association of the muscular and the tactile sensations , they ...
... tactile sensations , with all their accompaniments , remain exactly as they were . But , at the same time ... tactile sensations . And , in consequence of the incessant association of the muscular and the tactile sensations , they ...
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... ) . 7. The sense of sight does not give rise to the idea of mechanical solidity . tactile ideas called extension , figure , magnitude , and. 8. There is no likeness whatever between the 1 See Note C. THE METAPHYSICS OF SENSATION 269.
... ) . 7. The sense of sight does not give rise to the idea of mechanical solidity . tactile ideas called extension , figure , magnitude , and. 8. There is no likeness whatever between the 1 See Note C. THE METAPHYSICS OF SENSATION 269.
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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.