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" While we cannot give a satisfactory reason, why we believe, after a thousand experiments, that a stone will fall, or fire burn; can we ever satisfy ourselves concerning any determination, which we may form, with regard to the origin of worlds, and the... "
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects - Page 246
by David Hume - 1760 - 352 pages
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

David Hume - 1758 - 568 pages
...inaccurate operations. While we cannot give a fatisfactory reaibn, why we believe after a thoufand experiments, that a ftone will fall, or fire burn...refpect, fo reafonable, that it fuffices to make the flighted examination into the natural powers of the human hind, and compare them to their objects,...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects ...: Essays, moral, political, and ...

David Hume - 1764 - 524 pages
...inaccurate operations. While we cannot give a fatisfadtory reafon, why we believe, after a thoufand experiments, that a ftone will fall, or fire burn;...determinations which we may form with regard to the origin of wodds, and the fituation of nature, from, and to eternity ? TFhis narrow limitation, indeed, of our...
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An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1768 - 540 pages
...inaccurate operations. While we cannot give a fatisfactory reafon, why we believe, after a thoufand experiments, that a ftone will fall, or fire burn ; can we ever fatisfy ourfelves concerning any determination which we may form with regard to. the origin of worlds,, and the fi tuation of nature,...
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An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1772 - 556 pages
...that a ftone will fall, or fire burn ; can we ever fatisfy ourfelves concerning any determination, which we may form, with regard to the origin of worlds,...enquiries, is, in every refpect, fo reafonable, that it fufllces to make the ffighteft examination into the natural powers of the human mind, and to compare...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1788 - 600 pages
...experiments, that a ftone will fall, or fire burn ; can we ever fatisfy ourfelves concerning any determination which we may form, with regard to the origin of worlds,...and the fituation of nature, from, and to eternity ? 4 is. This narrow limitation, indeed, of our enquiries, is, in every refpect, fo reafonable, that...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

David Hume - 1804 - 552 pages
...concerning any determination, which we may form, with regard to the origin of worlds, and the situation of nature, from, and to eternity? ,. •* This narrow limitation, indeed, of our inquiries, is, in every respect, so reasonable, that it suffices to make the slightest examination...
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A View of the Evidences of Christianity at the Close of the Pretended Age of ...

Edward Nares - 1805 - 584 pages
...enquire concerning what has been, or <nay be ; that is, (to ufe his own words) " in regard to " tlie origin of worlds, and the fituation of nature, "from and to eternity ;" dp not at all preclude us from the enquiry, whether a Revelation has been made. A .Revelation accompanied...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...experiments, that a stone will fall, or fire burn ; can we ever satisfy ourselves concerning any determination which we may form with regard to the origin of worlds, and the situation of nature from, and to eternity ? This narrow limitation, indeed, of our inquiries, is, in...
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The Philosophical Works, Volume 4

David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...experiments, that a stone will fall, or fire burn ; can we ever satisfy ourselves concerning any determination which we may form with regard to the origin of worlds, and the situation of nature from, and to eternity ? This narrow limitation, indeed, of our inquiries, is, in...
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Locke's Writings and Philosophy Historically Considered: And Vindicated from ...

Edward Tagart - 1855 - 530 pages
...experiments, that a stone will fall, or fire burn, can we ever satisfy ourselves concerning any determination which we may form with regard to the origin of worlds, and the situation of nature from, and to, eternity ?" AS the whole of Hume's Sceptical Philosophy turns on...
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