 | William James, Ralph Barton Perry - Philosophy - 1912 - 314 pages
...thus in all its generality, the absolutist contention seems to use as its major premise Hume's notion 'that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences.' 1 Undoubtedly, since we use two phrases in talking first about... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1913 - 646 pages
...distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences. Did our perceptions either...and individual, or did the mind perceive some real connexion among them, there would be no difficulty in the case. For my part, I must plead the privilege... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1913 - 590 pages
...which I cannot render consistent ; nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all ovr distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences. Did oar perceptions either inhere in something' simple and individual,... | |
 | Douglas Clyde Macintosh - Knowledge, Theory of - 1915 - 542 pages
...principles which I cannot render consistent ; nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences." l In other words, as a would-be radical empiricist he does not... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - Ethics - 1918 - 566 pages
...did better ; for there he probed the causes of his own failure. " Did our perceptions," he said, " either inhere in something simple and individual, or did the mind perceive some real connexion among them, there would be no difficulty in the case2." It was because he found no unity... | |
 | 1918 - 850 pages
...did better ; for there he probed the causes of his own failure. " Did our perceptions," he said, " either inhere in something simple and individual, or did the mind perceive some real connexion among them, there would be no difficulty in the case2." It was because he found no unity... | |
 | 588 pages
...principles, which I cannot render consistent ; nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences. Did our perceptions either inhere in something simple and individual,... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - Philosophy, English - 1920 - 418 pages
...principles, which I cannot render consistent; nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences. Did our perceptions either inhere in something simple and individual,... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - Immortality - 1922 - 234 pages
...twin principles which Hume himself signalizes2 as the axiomatic presuppositions of his thinking, ' that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences ' and ' that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences '. Proceeding on these assumptions, Hume falls into the opposite... | |
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In short, there are two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct... 
