| David Hume - 1758 - 568 pages
...explication of it. I fay then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, fteady conception of an object, than what the imagination...renders realities, or what is taken for fuch, more prefcnt to us than fictions, caufes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a fuperior influence... | |
| David Hume - 1764 - 524 pages
...explication of it. I fay then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, fteady conception of an object, than what the imagination...unphilofophical, is intended only to exprefs that aft of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for fueh, more prefent to us than fictions,... | |
| David Hume - 1768 - 540 pages
...Thi-s variety of terms', which may feem fo unphilofophica'l, is intended only to exprefs that acl: of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for fuch, more prefent-to us than fictions, -caufes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a fuperior influence... | |
| David Hume - 1772 - 556 pages
...then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, fteady conception of an obje&, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain....mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for fxich, more prefent to us than fictions, caufes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a... | |
| David Hume - 1788 - 600 pages
...explication of it. I fay then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, fteady conception of an objecT:, than what the imagination...unphilofophical, is intended only to exprefs that act of the inind which renders realities, or what is taken for fuch, more prefent to us than fictions, caufes... | |
| David Hume - 1804 - 552 pages
...explication of it. I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively; forcible, firm, steady conception of an object; than what the imagination...ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosdphical, is intended only to express that act of the mind which renders realities,... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1806 - 232 pages
...Belief he afterwards defines, to be ' nothing but i mor,e vivid-, lively, forcible," firm, steady, conception of an object, than what the imagination; alone is ever able to attain.'* That * He adds:—' This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is. intended only to... | |
| Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - 1815 - 576 pages
...of it. J „»ay then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forci„ blc , firm , steady conception of an object , than what the imagination...alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, fte Ьоф ebt 5, which may seem so imphilosopljiflala- is intended only to exprès* „that act of... | |
| Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - 1815 - 594 pages
...ш|'феп, äufammenäufe|en, ), which may seen» so unphilosophical , is intended only to express „that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken „for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to j, weigh more in the thought, and gives them... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1818 - 602 pages
...« Belief he afterwards defines to- be " nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady, conception of an object, than what the imagination...alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms," he adds, " which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which... | |
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