An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism |
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... fight it may ap- pear . They who form opinions concerning the manners and principles of the times , may be divided into three claffes . Some will tell us , that the prefent age tranfcends all that have gone before it , in politeness ...
... fight it may ap- pear . They who form opinions concerning the manners and principles of the times , may be divided into three claffes . Some will tell us , that the prefent age tranfcends all that have gone before it , in politeness ...
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... the motion of my body , I conclude , that the appear- ance is owing , not to a real , external , cor- poreal object , but to fome diforder in my organ I organ of fight . Here reafoning is employ- ed : Ch . II . 2. ON TRU T H. 65.
... the motion of my body , I conclude , that the appear- ance is owing , not to a real , external , cor- poreal object , but to fome diforder in my organ I organ of fight . Here reafoning is employ- ed : Ch . II . 2. ON TRU T H. 65.
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James Beattie. organ of fight . Here reafoning is employ- ed : but where does it terminate ? It ter- minates in experience , which I have ac- quired by means of my fenfes . But if I believed them fallacious , if I believed things to be ...
James Beattie. organ of fight . Here reafoning is employ- ed : but where does it terminate ? It ter- minates in experience , which I have ac- quired by means of my fenfes . But if I believed them fallacious , if I believed things to be ...
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... fight of Gad , when they are confcious of a fentiment of lawfulness attending the performance of it : they believe a certain mode of conduct to be incumbent on them in certain circum- ftances , because a fentiment of duty arifes in ...
... fight of Gad , when they are confcious of a fentiment of lawfulness attending the performance of it : they believe a certain mode of conduct to be incumbent on them in certain circum- ftances , because a fentiment of duty arifes in ...
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... fight may feem difputable to many . I foresee feveral ob- jections , but fhall content myself with examining two of the most confiderable . And these I shall fet in fuch a light , as will , I hope , fhow them to be inconclu- five , and ...
... fight may feem difputable to many . I foresee feveral ob- jections , but fhall content myself with examining two of the most confiderable . And these I shall fet in fuch a light , as will , I hope , fhow them to be inconclu- five , and ...
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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.