An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism |
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... fallacies of the fceptical philofo- phy may be detected by every person of common fenfe , even though he should not poffefs acutenefs or metaphyfical know- ledge fufficient to qualify him for a logical confutation of them . THIRDLY , I ...
... fallacies of the fceptical philofo- phy may be detected by every person of common fenfe , even though he should not poffefs acutenefs or metaphyfical know- ledge fufficient to qualify him for a logical confutation of them . THIRDLY , I ...
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... fallacious , but fuch as I fhould approve if I were perfectly ac- quainted with every thing in the universe , and fuch as I may approve , and admit of , This remark , when applied to truth in general , is subject to certain limitations ...
... fallacious , but fuch as I fhould approve if I were perfectly ac- quainted with every thing in the universe , and fuch as I may approve , and admit of , This remark , when applied to truth in general , is subject to certain limitations ...
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... fallacious , we fhould think öürfelves capable of detecting the cheat . Common Senfe tells me , that the ground on which I ftand is hard , material , and folid , and has a real , feparate , independ- ent existence . BERKELEY and HUME ...
... fallacious , we fhould think öürfelves capable of detecting the cheat . Common Senfe tells me , that the ground on which I ftand is hard , material , and folid , and has a real , feparate , independ- ent existence . BERKELEY and HUME ...
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... fallacious , it is the Deity who makes them fo ; and therefore we can never rectify , or even detect , the fallacy . But we cannot even fuppofe them fallacious , without viola- ting our nature ; nor , if we acknowledge a God , without ...
... fallacious , it is the Deity who makes them fo ; and therefore we can never rectify , or even detect , the fallacy . But we cannot even fuppofe them fallacious , without viola- ting our nature ; nor , if we acknowledge a God , without ...
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... fallacious fenfation , by referring it to a former fenfation , re- ceived by us , or by other men , is not the ultimate judge in this matter ; for that all fuch reasoning is refolvible into this prin- ciple of common fenfe , That things ...
... fallacious fenfation , by referring it to a former fenfation , re- ceived by us , or by other men , is not the ultimate judge in this matter ; for that all fuch reasoning is refolvible into this prin- ciple of common fenfe , That things ...
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abfurd acknowledge Æneid againſt alfo alſo anfwer appear argument axiom becauſe believe cafe caufe cauſe cerning circumſtances common fenfe confequence confiftent confute conviction demonftration difcover difpute diftinct diſtance doctrine doubt Effay eſtabliſh evidence of fenfe exift exiſtence experience faculties faid falfe fallacious fame fceptical fcepticiſm fcience feems fenfation fenſe fentiments fhall fhould fight firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foul ftill fubject fuch fufficient fuppofe fyftem hath himſelf Human Nature HUME HUME's idea impoffible impreffion inftance inſtinctive intuitive inveſtigation itſelf judgement leaſt lefs lieve magnitude MALEBRANCHE mankind metaphyfical mind miſtake moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf neceffarily neceffary neceffity never notwithſtanding obfervation object perceive perception perfon philofophy poffible prefent principles proof propofition prove purpoſe Pyrrho queſtion reafon refpect rience ſeems ſenſe ſpeak teftimony thefe themſelves ther theſe thing thofe thoſe tion Treatife of Human true truth underſtanding univerfal uſe virtue viſible words Xenoph
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Page 76 - if ye faw, how came I thus, how here : " Not of myfelf; by fome great Maker then, " In goodnefs and in power pre.eminent. " Tell me, how I may know him, how adore, " From whom I have, that thus I move and live, •* And feel that I am happier than I know.
Page 326 - deduced from his theory, and which he fays is the beft that he can give. " A caufe *' is an object precedent and contiguous *' to another, and fo united with it, that ** the idea of the one determines the mind *' to form the idea of the other, and the
Page 326 - lively idea of the other *." There are now in my view two contiguous houfes, one of which was built laft fummer, and the other two years ago. By feeing them conftantly together for feveral months, I find, that the idea of the one determines my mind to form the idea of the other, and the
Page 326 - of the one to form a more lively idea of the other. So that, according to our author's definition, the one houfe is the caufe, and the other the effect ! — Again, day and night have
Page 272 - of the foul is unintelligible *." —Well, Sir, if you think fo, you may let it alone.— No; that muft not be neither. " What we call a mind, is nothing *' but a heap or collection of different
Page 501 - the negroes, and in *' general all the other fpecies of men, (for " there are four or five different kinds), to ** be naturally inferior to the whites.
Page 285 - I once knew a man," fays Mr LOCKE, " who " was bred a fcholar, and had no bad memory, who •-** told me, that he had never dreamed in his life, till he " had that fever he was then newly recovered of, which " was about the five or fix and twentieth year of his age. «• I fuppofe the world affords more fuch initances.
Page 326 - that ** the idea of the one determines the mind *' to form the idea of the other, and the ** impreffion of the one to form a more
Page 446 - nor an ugly man his want of beauty. This our author will not allow to be a fatisfactory anfwer; becaufe, fays he, I have fhown, that free-will has no place with, regard to the actions, no more than the qualities of men *. What an immenfe metaphyfical labyrinth
Page 80 - is reafon to think, that he ferioufly difbelieved the exiftence of his own foul. He imagined, that in confequence of an extraordinary interpofition of divine power, his rational foul was gradually annihilated, and that nothing was now left him, but a principle of animal life, which he held in common with the brutes. But where-ever the.