A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART III is evident An experiment in the past proves at least a possibility for the future. Secondly, The component parts ...

BOOK I PART III this kind, is composed of parts, which are of the same nature both among themselves, and with those, that compos ...

BOOK I PART III effect. This connexion or constant conjunction sufficiently proves the one part to be the cause of the other. As ...

BOOK I PART III from each part of the probability. Since there- fore each part of the probability contributes to the production ...

BOOK I PART III The component parts of the probability and possibility, being alike in their nature, must produce like effects; ...

BOOK I PART III probability of causes are founded on the trans- ferring of past to future. The transferring of any past experime ...

BOOK I PART III number of views. Or,secondly, That it runs into the other similar and correspondent views, and gives them a supe ...

BOOK I PART III compatible with each other, and it is impossi- ble the object can at once exist conformable to both of them, the ...

BOOK I PART III tle light, which philosophy can yet afford us in such sublime and such curious speculations. Let men be once ful ...

BOOK I PART III still acquire a new degree of evidence. First, It is obvious, that in reasonings of this kind, it is not the obj ...

BOOK I PART III we can only repeat these contrary experiments with their particular proportions; which coued not produce assuran ...

BOOK I PART III tions, which may deserve our attention. The FIRST may be explained after this manner. When the mind forms a reas ...

BOOK I PART III we may pronounce, that a person who would voluntarily repeat any idea in his mind, though supported by one past ...

BOOK I PART III ments on one side amount to ten thousand, and on the other to ten thousand and one, the judg- ment gives the pre ...

BOOK I PART III these parts. Thus a man, who desires a thou- sand pound, has in reality a thousand or more desires which uniting ...

BOOK I PART III a greater passion than two; and this it trans- fers to larger numbers, because of the resem- blance; and by a ge ...

BOOK I PART III the imagination; and the resemblance, along with the constant union, conveys this force and vivacity to the rela ...

BOOK I PART III soning: but as this resemblance admits of many different degrees, the reasoning becomes pro- portionably more or ...

BOOK I PART III SECTIONXIII. OFUNPHILOSOPHICAL PROBABILITY All these kinds of probability are received by philosophers, and allo ...

BOOK I PART III ter of fact we remember, is more or less con- vincing according as the fact is recent or re- mote; and though th ...