 | Terence Penelhum - 1992 - 240 páginas
...drawing on this mechanism to explain how our fundamental beliefs arise, Hume shows, as he puts it, that "belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cognitive part of our natures.31 It is here, alone, that we can find an answer to the skeptic; and... | |
 | John Christian Laursen - 1992 - 272 páginas
...Sharing the Cartesian understanding of man's dual nature as composed of mind and body, Hume wrote that "belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cognitive part of our natures" (T183). Following Malebranche, he also ventured a psychophysiological... | |
 | John Martin Fischer, Mark Ravizza - 1993 - 380 páginas
...determinism (or non-self-determinability). One could put this in a Humean way: belief in responsibility is "more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures".3 So the products of the pessimists' excogitations, although properly called beliefs, simply... | |
 | David Fate Norton - 1993 - 420 páginas
...enquiry" (T 1.4.2, 193). Nor is this particular kind of belief unique in this respect: quite generally, "belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of OUT natures" (T 1.4.1, 183). When it comes to our most general and most fundamental beliefs (such as... | |
 | Annette Baier - 1991 - 354 páginas
...that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are deriv'djrom nothing but custom; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures" (T. 183). Hume's uses of "sensible" and "sensitive" here are carefully calculated, as is also, I think,... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 páginas
..."that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are deriv'd from nothing but custom,- and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative parts of our natures" [Treatise 183].) The astronomer persists in his conviction, however, only as... | |
 | Michael Williams - 1996 - 420 páginas
...of that fantastic sect" is "to make the reader sensible of the truth of [the] hypothesis that . . . belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures."6 The lesson of scepticism is that belief is natural, even though finally groundless. More... | |
 | Oliver A. Johnson - 1995 - 398 páginas
...of that fantastic sect, is only to make the reader sensible of the truth of my hypothesis . . . tbat belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative fart of our natures. I have here prov'd, that the very same principles, which make us form a decision... | |
 | John A. Hall, Ian Charles Jarvie - 1996 - 774 páginas
...of judgement, with propositional content, and to a revised view of them as expressions of feeling: 'belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures '. "Morality ... is more properly felt than judg'd of. Seen in one aspect Hume is a constructive sceptic... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 páginas
...that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are deriv'dfrom nothing but custom,- and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures. 1 have here prov'd, that the very same principles, which make us form a decision upon any subject,... | |
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... all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom, and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures. 
