A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART II the first species of distance is found to be con- vertible into the second, it is in this respect a kind of cause ...

BOOK I PART II second objection, derived from the conjunction of the ideas of rest and annihilation. When ev- ery thing is annih ...

BOOK I PART II Since a body interposed betwixt two others may be supposed to be annihilated, without producing any change upon s ...

BOOK I PART II Thus I seem to have answered the three ob- jections above-mentioned; though at the same time I am sensible, that ...

BOOK I PART II ible and tangible. Here is the whole of my sys- tem; and in no part of it have I endeavoured to explain the cause ...

BOOK I PART II one instance at least, that they have met with success. But at present I content myself with knowing perfectly th ...

BOOK I PART II If we carry our enquiry beyond the appear- ances of objects to the senses, I am afraid, that most of our conclusi ...

BOOK I PART II opinion, as being more suitable to vulgar and popular notions. If theNewtonianphilosophy be rightly understood, i ...

BOOK I PART II tangible distance, or in other words, to the ca- pacity of becoming a visible and tangible dis- tance, the name o ...

BOOK I PART II pute and reason concerning it; we must for the same reason have the idea of time without any changeable existence ...

BOOK I PART II perceptions in our mind; so that the idea of time being for ever present with us; when we consider a stedfast obj ...

BOOK I PART II form the idea of a time and duration, without any change or succession. ...

BOOK I PART II SECTIONVI. OF THEIDEA OFEXISTENCE, AND ORETERNALEXISTENCE It may not be amiss, before we leave this subject, to e ...

BOOK I PART II that since we never remember any idea or im- pression without attributing existence to it, the idea of existence ...

BOOK I PART II thus, though every impression and idea we re- member be considered as existent, the idea of existence is not deri ...

BOOK I PART II perception we believe to be existent. This we may without hesitation conclude to be impos- sible. Our foregoing r ...

BOOK I PART II ing is ever really present with the mind but its perceptions or impressions and ideas, and that external objects ...

BOOK I PART II have appeared in that narrow compass. This is the universe of the imagination, nor have we any idea but what is t ...

PART III OFKNOWLEDGE ANDPROBABILITY SECTIONI. OFKNOWLEDGE There are seven (Part I. Sect. 5.) differ- ent kinds of philosophical ...

BOOK I PART III to two right ones; and this relation is invari- able, as long as our idea remains the same. On the contrary, the ...