 | Stephen Buckle - 2007 - 223 páginas
...may be most accurately defined, a lively idea related or associated with a present impression', and is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures'. And, 'Belief in general consists in nothing but the vivacity of an idea. Again, the idea of existence... | |
 | Paul Russell - 2008 - 442 páginas
...feeling, not reason."9 The "main thesis" of Hume's Treatise is, on this view, captured in the claim "that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cognitive part of our natures."10 The human situation is "one in which feeling, not reason, holds the... | |
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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. 
