A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART III naturally introduces the idea of any other ob- ject, that is resembling, contiguous to, or con- nected with it. ...

BOOK I PART III ideas, which at first sight may be esteemed different from any of these, but will be found at the bottom to depe ...

BOOK I PART III plies the place of this reflection, and is so accus- tomed to pass from the word to the idea, that it interposes ...

BOOK I PART III When the impression of one becomes present to us, we immediately form an idea of its usual attendant; and conseq ...

BOOK I PART III SECTIONVII. OF THENATURE OF THEIDEA ORBELIEF The idea of an object is an essential part of the belief of it, but ...

BOOK I PART III when we affirm, that God is existent, we sim- ply form the idea of such a being, as he is rep- resented to us; n ...

BOOK I PART III which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner, in which we conceive it. Suppose a person present ...

BOOK I PART III assents, not only conceives the ideas accord- ing to the proposition, but is necessarily deter- mined to conceiv ...

BOOK I PART III ject in the same manner with you; immediately conceives it in a different manner, and has dif- ferent ideas of i ...

BOOK I PART III All the perceptions of the mind are of two kinds, viz. impressions and ideas, which differ from each other only ...

BOOK I PART III rately defined, a lively idea related to or associ- ated with a present impression. We may here take occasion to ...

BOOK I PART III in every judgment, which we form, we unite two different ideas; since in that proposition, God is, or indeed any ...

BOOK I PART III resolve themselves into the first, and are noth- ing but particular ways of conceiving our ob- jects. Whether we ...

BOOK I PART III This operation of the mind, which forms the belief of any matter of fact, seems hitherto to have been one of the ...

BOOK I PART III ing it. For my part I must own, that I find a con- siderable difficulty in the case; and that even when I think ...

BOOK I PART III may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which ren- ders realities more pr ...

BOOK I PART III feeling or manner of conception. We may make use of words, that express something near it. But its true and prop ...

BOOK I PART III to read a book as a romance, and another as a true history, they plainly receive the same ideas, and in the same ...

BOOK I PART III SECTIONVIII. OF THECAUSES OFBELIEF Having thus explained the nature of belief, and shewn that it consists in a l ...

BOOK I PART III fixed, the action will always have more or less vigour and vivacity. When therefore any ob- ject is presented, w ...