 | Thomas Miller Forsyth - 1910 - 252 páginas
...that 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"3— is itself at fault; but rather his preconception as to what sentience is, and what the... | |
 | James Lindsay - 1910 - 124 páginas
...Hume significantly forgot that imagination is often livelier than memory. He declared belief to be more properly an act of the " sensitive " than of the " cogitative " part of our natures. This reference of belief to the sensitive portion of our nature has its significance in Hume's unfortunate... | |
 | George Alexander Johnston - 1911 - 288 páginas
...last step in this progress, and crowned the system by what he calls his hypothesis — to wit, That Belief is more properly an act of the Sensitive than of the Cogitative part of our nature. Beyond this I think no man can go in this track ; sensation or feeling is all, and what is... | |
 | St. George William Joseph Stock - 1912 - 246 páginas
...use Hume's own words, " is nothing but a species of sensation " (Treatise, vol. i., p. 403) ; and " belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures " (p. 475). This is true of the inductive instinct, which man shares with brutes, but it is not true... | |
 | David Hume - 1912 - 400 páginas
...die Frage aufgeworfen werden, ob nicht auch unter Voraussetzung meiner Hypothese aus den 259) Hame: more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures. „Sensitive" hier statt des sonst von Hume gebrauchten „feeling", und zwar speziell im Sinne von:... | |
 | Thomas Vernor Smith, Marjorie Grene - 1957 - 384 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 part of our natures. I have here prov'd, that the very same principles, which make us form a decision upon any subject,... | |
 | Werner Maihofer, Gerhard Sprenger - 1990 - 548 páginas
...that '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 parts of our natures. " 1 In On Certainty Wittgenstein states that ' It is always 8 Points of comparison... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 páginas
...the last step in this progress, and crowned the system by what he calls his hypothesis, to wit, that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our nature. Beyond this I think no man can go in this track; sensation or feeling is all, and what is left... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 páginas
...course, dismisses as fallacious."70 One of Hume's great themes against Pyrrhonistic skepticism was "that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cognitive part of our natures."71 Hume's doctrine of belief, or faith, was set against his doctrine... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - 1992 - 270 páginas
...skeptical arguments is that they confirm his theory of belief. deriv'd from nothing but custom; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures. (p. 183) Hume's central idea seems to be this: If belief were fixed by processes of reasoning, then... | |
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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. 
