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" I shall add, for a further confirmation of the foregoing theory, that, as this operation of the mind, by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable that it... "
The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ... - Page 195
1838
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The Philosophical Review, Volume 16

Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1907 - 716 pages
...himself declares. " I shall add for a further confirmation of the foregoing theory," he says, " that, as this operation of the mind, by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable, that it could...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Selections from A Treatise of ...

David Hume - 1907 - 324 pages
...their wonder and admiration. I shall add, for a further confirmation of the foregoing theory, that, as this operation of the mind, by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice •versa, is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable, that it could...
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Contributions to Education, Issue 33

Columbia University. Teachers College - 1910 - 200 pages
...the value and even the necessity of these notions in every-day experience. Indeed he urges that the " operation of the mind by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential to the substance of all human creatures, it is not probable that it could be...
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The Conflict of Naturalism and Humanism

Willystine Goodsell - 1910 - 198 pages
...value and even .the necessity of these notions in every-day experience. Indeed he urges that the " operation of the mind by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential to the substance of all human creatures, it is not probable that it could be...
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A History of Philosophy

Frank Thilly - 1914 - 640 pages
...imagination, but the matter seems obscure and unsatisfactory to him.) Nature, therefore, has not trusted the operation of the mind by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, to the fallacious deductions of reason, but has secured it by an instinct or mechanical tendency....
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Selections, Volume 10

David Hume - 1927 - 444 pages
...their wonder and admiration. I shall add, for a further confirmation of the foregoing theory, that, as this operation of the mind, by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential to the. subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable, that it could...
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The Greek Mode of Thought in Western Philosophy

Alexander Sissel Kohanski - 1984 - 352 pages
...in this enterprise, he looked for its foundations in moral reasoning or in experiential inference. This operation of the mind, by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa [he wrote], is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable, that...
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Scepticism and Belief in Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

S. Tweyman - 1986 - 202 pages
...to ends, or employ our natural powers, either to the producing of good or avoiding of evil.'..[A]s this operation of the mind, by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable, that it could...
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Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume - 1750 - 272 pages
...their Wonder and Admiration. I SHALL add, as a farther Confirmation of the foregoing Theory, that as this Operation of the Mind, by which we infer like Effects from like Caufes, and vice ver/a, is fo cfTcntial to the Subfiftence of all human Creatures, it is not probable...
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David Hume: An Introduction to His Philosophical System

Terence Penelhum - 1992 - 240 pages
...their wonder and admiration. I shall add, for a further confirmation of the foregoing theory, that, as this operation of the mind, by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable, that it could...
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