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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects ...: Essays, moral, political, and ... - Page 17
by David Hume - 1764
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, in Two Volumes

David Hume - 1779 - 548 pages
...becaufe, from our own feeling, we can conceive virtue; and this we may unite to the figure and fhape of a horfe, which is an animal familiar to us. In...feem the moft wide of this origin, are found, upon a nearer fcrutiny, to be derived from it. The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wife>...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones. To prove this, the two following arguments will, I hope, be sufficient First, When we analyze our thoughts or ideas, however compounded or sublime, we always find...
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The Philosophical Works, Volume 4

David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones. To prove this, the two following arguments will, I hope, be sufficient. First, When we analyze our thoughts or ideas, however compounded or sublime, we always...
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Typical selections from the best English authors, with ..., Volume 2

English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones. To prove this, the two following arguments will, I hope, be sufficient. First, When we analyze our thoughts or ideas, however compounded or sublime, we always...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Selections from A Treatise of ...

David Hume - 1907 - 324 pages
...myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones. To prove this, the two following arguments will, I hope, be sufficient. First, when we analyze our thoughts or ideas, however compounded or sublime, we always...
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Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy ...

1908 - 768 pages
...myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones. To prove this, the two following arguments will, I hope, be sufficient. First, when we analyze our thoughts or ideas, however compounded or sublime, we always...
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Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Lewis White Beck - 1966 - 332 pages
...myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones. To prove this, the two following arguments will, I hope, be sufficient. F'irst, when we analyze our thoughts or ideas, however compounded or sublime, we always...
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Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume - 1750 - 272 pages
...The Mixture and Compofition of thefe belongs alone to the Mind and Will. Or to exprefs myfelf in more philofophical Language, all our Ideas or more feeble...refolve themfelves into fuch fimple Ideas as were copy'd from a precedent Feeling or Sentiment. Even thofe Ideas, which, at firft View, feem the moft...
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David Hume: An Introduction to His Philosophical System

Terence Penelhum - 1992 - 240 pages
...myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones. To prove this, the two following arguments will, I hope, be sufficient. First, when we analyze our thoughts or ideas, however compounded or sublime, we always...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman ...

David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - 170 pages
...myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones. To prove this, the two following arguments will, I hope, be sufficient. First, when we analyse our thoughts or ideas, however compounded or sublime, we always...
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