Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volumen1A. Millar, 1760 - 352 páginas |
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... experience . When we think of a golden mountain , we only join two confiftent ideas , gold , and mountain , with which we were formerly ac- quainted . A virtuous horfe we can conceive ; be caufe , from our own feeling , we can conceive ...
... experience . When we think of a golden mountain , we only join two confiftent ideas , gold , and mountain , with which we were formerly ac- quainted . A virtuous horfe we can conceive ; be caufe , from our own feeling , we can conceive ...
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... experience , when we find , that any particular objects are conftantly con- joined with each other . Let an object be prefented to a man of ever fo ftrong natural reason and abilities ; if that object be entirely new to him , he will ...
... experience , when we find , that any particular objects are conftantly con- joined with each other . Let an object be prefented to a man of ever fo ftrong natural reason and abilities ; if that object be entirely new to him , he will ...
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David Hume. fifted by experience , ever draw any inferences con- cerning real existence and matter of fact . THIS propofition , that causes and effects are difcover- able , not by reafon but by experience , will readily be admitted with ...
David Hume. fifted by experience , ever draw any inferences con- cerning real existence and matter of fact . THIS propofition , that causes and effects are difcover- able , not by reafon but by experience , will readily be admitted with ...
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... experience . We fancy , that , were we brought , on a sudden , into this world , we could at firft have inferred , that one Bil- liard - ball would communicate motion to another up- on impulse ; and that we needed not to have waited for ...
... experience . We fancy , that , were we brought , on a sudden , into this world , we could at firft have inferred , that one Bil- liard - ball would communicate motion to another up- on impulse ; and that we needed not to have waited for ...
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... experience ; fo must we also efteem the supposed tye or connexion between the cause and effect , which binds them together , and ren- ders it impoffible , that any other effect could refult from the operation of that caufe . When I fee ...
... experience ; fo must we also efteem the supposed tye or connexion between the cause and effect , which binds them together , and ren- ders it impoffible , that any other effect could refult from the operation of that caufe . When I fee ...
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Página 175 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Página 178 - ... integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood, and at the same time attesting facts performed in such a public manner and in so celebrated a part of the world as to render the detection unavoidable— all which circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance in the testimony of men.
Página 89 - It is more conformable to the ordinary wisdom of nature to secure so necessary an act of the mind, by some instinct or mechanical tendency, which may be infallible in its operations, may discover itself at the first appearance of life and thought, and may be independent of all the laboured deductions of the understanding.
Página 60 - We have said that all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect ; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience ; and that all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past.
Página 80 - I say then that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
Página 160 - ... pleasure. A horse that has been accustomed to the field, becomes acquainted with the proper height which he can leap, and will never attempt what exceeds his force and ability. An old greyhound will trust the more fatiguing part of the...
Página 246 - While we cannot give a satisfactory reason, why we believe, after a thousand experiments, that a stone will fall, or fire burn; can we ever satisfy ourselves concerning any determination, which we may form, with regard to the origin of worlds, and the situation of nature, from, and to eternity?
Página 76 - If I ask why you believe any particular matter of fact which you relate, you must tell me some reason; and this reason will be some other fact connected with it. But as you cannot proceed after this manner in...
Página 29 - It is evident, that there is a principle of connexion between the different thoughts or ideas of the mind, and that, in their appearance to the memory or imagination, they introduce each other with a certain degree of method and regularity.
Página 162 - ... them. Animals, therefore, are not guided in these inferences by reasoning : neither are children : neither are the generality of mankind in their ordinary actions and conclusions: neither are philosophers themselves, who, in all the active parts of life, are in the main the same with the vulgar, and are governed by the same maxims.