A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART III give them a prejudice against the present doc- trine. This contrary biass is easily accounted for. It is a commo ...

BOOK I PART III pose necessity and power to lie in the objects we consider, not in our mind that considers them; notwithstanding ...

BOOK I PART III them. Thought may well depend on causes for its operation, but not causes on thought. This is to reverse the ord ...

BOOK I PART III trumpet, nor light the same with solidity. If we have really no idea of a power or efficacy in any object, or of ...

BOOK I PART III are led astray by a false philosophy. This is the case, when we transfer the determination of the thought to ext ...

BOOK I PART III we feel internally in contemplating them. And this I carry so far, that I am ready to convert my present reasoni ...

BOOK I PART III ternal objects, and is not known to us any other way than by experience. Now the nature and effects of experienc ...

BOOK I PART III this seemingly preposterous manner, and make use of terms before we were able exactly to de- fine them, or fix t ...

BOOK I PART III we may substitute this other definition in its place, viz. Acauseis an object precedent and contiguous to anothe ...

BOOK I PART III cession and contiguity. Again, when I consider the influence of this constant conjunction, I per- ceive, that su ...

BOOK I PART III vailed in philosophy. First, We may learn from the foregoing, doctrine, that all causes are of the same kind, an ...

BOOK I PART III Secondly, The same course of reasoning will make us conclude, that there is but one kind of necessity, as there ...

BOOK I PART III force, without producing a different species of that relation. The distinction, which we often make be- twixtown ...

BOOK I PART III we may easily conceive, that there is no abso- lute nor metaphysical necessity, that every be- ginning of existe ...

BOOK I PART III derived from causation, and as all our reason- ings concerning causation are derived from the experienced conjun ...

BOOK I PART III SECTIONXV. RULES BY WHICH TOJUDGE OFCAUSES ANDEFFECTS According to the precedent doctrine, there are no objects ...

BOOK I PART III that constant conjunction, on which the rela- tion of cause and effect totally depends. Since therefore it is po ...

BOOK I PART III any clear experiment we have discovered the causes or effects of any phaenomenon, we im- mediately extend our ob ...

BOOK I PART III like causes always produce like effects, when in any instance we find our expectation to be disappointed, we mus ...

BOOK I PART III heat gives pleasure; if you diminish that heat, the pleasure diminishes; but it does not follow, that if you aug ...