Philosophical EssaysAnthony Finley, 1811 - 580 páginas |
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... Hume , · CHAPTER IV . - The same subject continued , ESSAY SECOND . — On the Idealism of Berkely , CHAPTER I. - On some prevailing mistakes with res- pect to the import and aim of the Berkeleian system , CHAPTER II . - Section 1. - On ...
... Hume , · CHAPTER IV . - The same subject continued , ESSAY SECOND . — On the Idealism of Berkely , CHAPTER I. - On some prevailing mistakes with res- pect to the import and aim of the Berkeleian system , CHAPTER II . - Section 1. - On ...
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... Hume was one of the first who devi- ated from it , by the enlarged sense in which he used Association in his writings ; comprehending under that term , all the various connections or affinities among our ideas , natural as well as ...
... Hume was one of the first who devi- ated from it , by the enlarged sense in which he used Association in his writings ; comprehending under that term , all the various connections or affinities among our ideas , natural as well as ...
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... Hume , as it seems to me to be that which is most agreeable to present use , and consequently the most likely to present itself to the generality of my readers ; guarding them , at the same time , as far as possible , against con ...
... Hume , as it seems to me to be that which is most agreeable to present use , and consequently the most likely to present itself to the generality of my readers ; guarding them , at the same time , as far as possible , against con ...
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... Hume concerning the laws of association , might boast , with far greater reason , that , without having looked into Borelli , he can train that animal to his various paces ; and that , when he exercises him with the longe , he ex ...
... Hume concerning the laws of association , might boast , with far greater reason , that , without having looked into Borelli , he can train that animal to his various paces ; and that , when he exercises him with the longe , he ex ...
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... Hume , concern- ing the existence both of matter and of mind , rests funda- mentally . Has this scepticism had no effect in unsettling the opinions of mankind ? or granting ( as I believe will not be disputed ) that the effect has been ...
... Hume , concern- ing the existence both of matter and of mind , rests funda- mentally . Has this scepticism had no effect in unsettling the opinions of mankind ? or granting ( as I believe will not be disputed ) that the effect has been ...
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Página 152 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Página 336 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Página 373 - The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal •wood; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Página 103 - But that all his arguments, though otherwise intended, are in reality merely sceptical, appears from this, that they admit of no answer, and produce no conviction. Their only effect is to cause that momentary amazement and irresolution and confusion which is the result of scepticism.
Página 306 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Página 352 - And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.
Página 306 - She then thought .of that expression — it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun — which words then seemed to her to be very applicable to Jesus Christ.
Página 80 - Light and colours, heat and cold, extension and figures, in a word the things we see and feel, what are they but so many sensations, notions, ideas or impressions on the sense ; and is it possible to separate, even in thought, any of these from perception ? For my part I might as easily divide a thing from itself.
Página 77 - For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without : [would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there,] and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Página 71 - Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.