A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART II nite number of co-existent moments, or parts of time; which I believe will be allowed to be an arrant contradicti ...

BOOK I PART II difficulties can take place, and one argument counter-ballance another, and diminish its au- thority. A demonstra ...

BOOK I PART II the other side of the question, and that the doc- trine of indivisible points is also liable to unan- swerable ob ...

BOOK I PART II sion; for otherwise why do we talk and reason concerning it? It is likewise certain that this idea, as conceived ...

BOOK I PART II demonstrations for the infinite divisibility of extension are equally sophistical; since it is cer- tain these de ...

BOOK I PART II SECTIONIII. OF THE OTHERQUALITIES OF OURIDEA OFSPACE ANDTIME No discovery coued have been made more happily for d ...

BOOK I PART II ble bodies; and upon shutting them again, and considering the distance betwixt these bodies, I acquire the idea o ...

BOOK I PART II The table before me is alone sufficient by its view to give me the idea of extension. This idea, then, is borrowe ...

BOOK I PART II place the points in the same order with re- spect to each other, but also bestow on them that precise colour, wit ...

BOOK I PART II ered in a certain light; but being annexed to general terms, they are able to represent a vast variety, and to co ...

BOOK I PART II time alone ever to make its appearance, or be taken notice of by the mind. A man in a sound sleep, or strongly oc ...

BOOK I PART II motion may be communicated to external ob- jects. Wherever we have no successive percep- tions, we have no notion ...

BOOK I PART II tinguishes it from duration. Now as time is composed of parts, that are not coexistent: an unchangeable object, s ...

BOOK I PART II are joined in impression, be inseparable in idea, we need only consider, if they be different from each other; in ...

BOOK I PART II a sixth impression, which presents itself to the hearing or any other of the senses. Nor is it a sixth impression ...

BOOK I PART II other objects. The ideas of some objects it cer- tainly must have, nor is it possible for it with- out these idea ...

BOOK I PART II unchangeable. For it inevitably follows from thence, that since the idea of duration cannot be derived from such ...

BOOK I PART II divisible. This argument may be worth the ex- amining. Every idea, that is distinguishable, being also separable, ...

BOOK I PART II ple and indivisible point? No wonder if my answer appear somewhat new, since the ques- tion itself has scarce eve ...

BOOK I PART II we should preserve the idea of their colour or tangibility in order to comprehend them by our imagination. There ...