A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART II when we regard it as an object either of our sight or feeling. The same reasoning will prove, that the in- divisi ...

BOOK I PART II SECTIONIV. OBJECTIONSANSWERED Our system concerning space and time con- sists of two parts, which are intimately ...

BOOK I PART II at last indivisible; and these indivisible parts, being nothing in themselves, are inconceivable when not filled ...

BOOK I PART II the other, than to destroy either of them. It has often been maintained in the schools, that ex- tension must be ...

BOOK I PART II wherever objects are different, they are distin- guishable and separable by the imagination. II. The second objec ...

BOOK I PART II to approach each other, and to unite in such a manner that the body, which results from their union, is no more e ...

BOOK I PART II sity, that a coloured or tangible point should be annihilated upon the approach of another coloured or tangible p ...

BOOK I PART II What chiefly gives rise to these objections, and at the same time renders it so difficult to give a satisfactory ...

BOOK I PART II reasonings on the present subject, and makes it almost impossible to answer in an intelligi- ble manner, and in p ...

BOOK I PART II other supposition than that of the composi- tion of extension by indivisible points or atoms. How else coued any ...

BOOK I PART II and contradictory than this reasoning? What- ever can be conceived by a clear and distinct idea necessarily impli ...

BOOK I PART II breadth, yet by an abstraction without a sep- aration, we can consider the one without re- garding the other; in ...

BOOK I PART II A surface terminates a solid; a line termi- nates a surface; a point terminates a line; but I assert, that if the ...

BOOK I PART II consist of parts or inferior ideas; otherwise it would be the last of its parts, which finished the idea, and so ...

BOOK I PART II livers his arms. Thus it appears, that the definitions of math- ematics destroy the pretended demonstrations; and ...

BOOK I PART II thing concerning the proportions of quantity, we ought not to look for the utmost precision and exactness. None o ...

BOOK I PART II yet these have the readiest and justest answer to the present question. They need only reply, that lines or surfa ...

BOOK I PART II by an exact numeration, that an inch has fewer points than a foot, or a foot fewer than an ell or any greater mea ...

BOOK I PART II consists in the different numbers of the feet, of which they are composed; and that of a foot and a yard in the n ...

BOOK I PART II ity is a relation, it is not, strictly speaking, a property in the figures themselves, but arises merely from the ...