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Letters on Infidelity - Page 5
by George Horne - 1786 - 335 pages
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Skepticism and the Veil of Perception

Michael Huemer - 2001 - 236 pages
...four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determin'd to live, and talk, and act like other...
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Causality in Macroeconomics

Kevin D. Hoover - 2001 - 330 pages
...or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear cold, and strain'd and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Essays. Many modern accounts of causality, meant to be Humean in spirit, have relied nonetheless upon...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...friends; and when ... I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.' 96 'Be a philosopher,' he concluded; 'but amidst all your philosophy be still a man.' 97 Once his Treatisehad...
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Encountering Religious Pluralism: The Challenge to Christian Faith Mission

Harold Netland - 2001 - 372 pages
...Treatise of Human Nature, ed. LA Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Clarendon, 1965), pp. 268-69. 4"Ibid., p. 415. ridiculous that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live and talk and act like other people...
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Religion

David O'Connor, George Pattison - 2001 - 252 pages
...four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. (THN: 269) And. from the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, here is one of several passages that...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...friends; and when ... I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.'96 'Be a philosopher,' he concluded; 'but amidst all your philosophy be still a man.'97 Once...
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Liars Tale: A History Of Falsehood

Jeremy Campbell - 2002 - 372 pages
...four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther." Hume did not share the Cartesian belief that the work of a solitary designer, a lone craftsman, is...
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Philosophy and Living

Ralph Blumenau - 2002 - 644 pages
...or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live and talk and act like...
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Romantic Generations: Text, Authority and Posterity in British Romanticism

Lene Østermark-Johansen - 2003 - 182 pages
...amusement, I wou'd return to these [philosophical] speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determin'd to live, and talk, and act like other...
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The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to Arendt

Amélie Oksenberg Rorty - 2003 - 544 pages
...four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determin'd to live, and talk, and act like other...
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