A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART I and principles of the human mind, give a par- ticular account of ideas, before we proceed to impressions. For this ...

BOOK I PART I SECTIONIII. OF THEIDEAS OF THE MEMORY ANDIMAGINATION We find by experience, that when any im- pression has been pr ...

BOOK I PART I by the latter. When we remember any past event, the idea of it flows in upon the mind in a forcible manner; wherea ...

BOOK I PART I while the memory is in a manner tied down in that respect, without any power of variation. It is evident, that the ...

BOOK I PART I of common and vulgar phaenomena, that we may spare ourselves the trouble of insisting on it any farther. The same ...

BOOK I PART I ideas, it can easily produce a separation. ...

BOOK I PART I SECTIONIV. OF THECONNEXION OR ASSOCIATION OFIDEAS As all simple ideas may be separated by the imagination, and may ...

BOOK I PART I cluded from the imagination: Nor yet are we to conclude, that without it the mind cannot join two ideas; for nothi ...

BOOK I PART I plain, that in the course of our thinking, and in the constant revolution of our ideas, our imag- ination runs eas ...

BOOK I PART I relation of cause and effect betwixt their ob- jects. That we may understand the full extent of these relations, w ...

BOOK I PART I near or remote, according to the number of con- necting causes interposed betwixt the persons. Of the three relati ...

BOOK I PART I also when it has a power of producing it. And this we may observe to be the source of all the relation, of interes ...

BOOK I PART I These are therefore the principles of union or cohesion among our simple ideas, and in the imagination supply the ...

BOOK I PART I would be much better employed in examining the effects than the causes of his principle. Amongst the effects of th ...

BOOK I PART I SECTIONV. OFRELATIONS The wordrelationis commonly used in two senses considerably different from each other. Eithe ...

BOOK I PART I can be more distant than such or such things from each other, nothing can have less relation: as if dis- tance and ...

BOOK I PART I that it always produces a connexion or associ- ation of ideas. When a quality becomes very general, and is common ...

BOOK I PART I time, which are the sources of an infinite num- ber of comparisons, such as distant, contigu- ous, above, below, b ...

BOOK I PART I that no two ideas are in themselves contrary, except those of existence and non-existence, which are plainly resem ...

BOOK I PART I semblance. The first is called a difference of number; the other ofkind. ...