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David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    All reasonings concerning matter of fact seem to be founded on the relation of Cause and Effect.
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    to enquire what is the nature of that evidence which assures us of any real existence and matter of fact, beyond the present testimony of our senses, or the records of our memo
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    discoverable by the mere operation of thoug
  • Eva Maria Østergaard Frederiksenhas quoted6 years ago
    If you assert, therefore, that the understanding of the child is led into this conclusion by any process of argument or ratiocination, I may justly require you to produce that argument; nor have you any pretence to refuse so equitable a demand.
  • Eva Maria Østergaard Frederiksenhas quoted6 years ago
    As nature has taught us the use of our limbs, without giving us the knowledge of the muscles and nerves, by which they are actuated; so has she implanted in us an instinct, which carries forward the thought in a correspondent course to that which she has established among external objects; though we are ignorant of those powers and forces, on which this regular course and succession of objects totally depends
  • Eva Maria Østergaard Frederiksenhas quoted6 years ago
    Hence we may discover the reason why no philosopher, who is rational and modest, has ever pretended to assign the ultimate cause of any natural operation, or to show distinctly the action of that power, which produces any single effect in the universe
  • Eva Maria Østergaard Frederiksenhas quoted6 years ago
    This proposition, that causes and effects are discoverable, not by reason but by experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us; since we must be conscious of the utter inability, which we then lay under, of foretelling what would arise from them
  • Eva Maria Østergaard Frederiksenhas quoted6 years ago
    This proposition, that causes and effects are discoverable, not by reason but by experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us; since we must be conscious of the utter inability, which we then lay under, of foretelling what would arise from them. Present
  • Eva Maria Østergaard Frederiksenhas quoted6 years ago
    This proposition, that causes and effects are discoverable, not by reason but by experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us; since we must be conscious of the utter inability, which we then lay under, of foretelling what would arise from them.
  • Eva Maria Østergaard Frederiksenhas quoted6 years ago
    effects are discoverable, not by reason but by experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us; since we must be conscious of the utter inability, which we then lay under, of foretelling what would arise from them
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