A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART III is a precaution, which is not required of comic poets, whose personages and incidents, being of a more familiar ...

BOOK I PART III sion on the fancy and affections. The several incidents of the piece acquire a kind of relation by being united ...

BOOK I PART III To confirm this we may observe, that the as- sistance is mutual betwixt the judgment and fancy, as well as betwi ...

BOOK I PART III its operations; so they influence the judgment after the same manner, and produce belief from the very same prin ...

BOOK I PART III We may observe the same effect of poetry in a lesser degree; and this is common both to poetry and madness, that ...

BOOK I PART III at the same time the feelings of the passions are very different when excited by poetical fic- tions, from what ...

BOOK I PART III this case, no more than in any other, is not to be measured by the apparent agitation of the mind. A poetical de ...

BOOK I PART III ing proceeds in some measure from reflection andgeneral rules. We observe, that the vigour of conception, which ...

BOOK I PART III viction: though the want of resemblance, or contiguity, may render its force inferior to that of other opinions. ...

BOOK I PART III fect upon the poet himself, as well as upon his readers. ...

BOOK I PART III SECTIONXI. OF THEPROBABILITY OF CHANCES But in order to bestow on this system its full force and evidence, we mu ...

BOOK I PART III course, I have followed this method of expres- sion; it is however certain, that in common dis- course we readil ...

BOOK I PART III are entirely free from doubt and uncertainty. By probability, that evidence, which is still at- tended with unce ...

BOOK I PART III to that of causation; and it is essential to it, to leave the imagination perfectly indifferent, ei- ther to con ...

BOOK I PART III thing, which gives it the superiority, and de- termines the event rather to that side than the other: That is, i ...

BOOK I PART III lars, with a total indifference in others. Where nothing limits the chances, every notion, that the most extrava ...

BOOK I PART III at the same time is undetermined in its choice of any particular event. Proceeding then in that reasoning, where ...

BOOK I PART III chances produces our assent neither by demon- stration nor probability. It is indeed evident that we can never b ...

BOOK I PART III said, I would ask, what is here meant by like- lihood and probability? The likelihood and probability of chances ...

BOOK I PART III ter such a manner as that four of its sides are marked with one figure, or one number of spots, and two with ano ...