A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART II whatever foundation there may be for a contro- versy concerning the things themselves, it may be pretended, that ...

BOOK I PART II nipotence of the deity, while the other parts re- main at rest. For as every idea, that is distin- guishable, is ...

BOOK I PART II ing now no distance betwixt the walls of the chamber, they touch each other; in the same manner as my hand touche ...

BOOK I PART II of rest and annihilation, it is evident, that the idea, which results from them, is not that of a contact of part ...

BOOK I PART II pute without understanding perfectly the sub- ject of the controversy. It is evident the idea of darkness is no p ...

BOOK I PART II nothing, and never receives the idea of exten- sion, nor indeed any idea, from this invariable motion. Even suppo ...

BOOK I PART II that all bodies, which discover themselves to the eye, appear as if painted on a plain sur- face, and that their ...

BOOK I PART II proper to suppose a perfect removal of all tan- gible objects: we must allow something to be perceived by the fee ...

BOOK I PART II vacuum or pure extension, not only intelligible to the mind, but obvious to the very senses. This is our natural ...

BOOK I PART II ent from what a blind man receives from his eyes, or what is conveyed to us in the dark- est night, it must parta ...

BOOK I PART II tions are each of them simple and indivisible, they can never give us the idea of extension. We may illustrate th ...

BOOK I PART II unaccompanyed with some other perception, it can no more give us that idea, when mixed with the impressions of ta ...

BOOK I PART II that give us a true idea of extension. The sen- sation of motion is likewise the same, when there is nothing tang ...

BOOK I PART II tion; experience shews us, that it is possible the same object may be felt with the same sensation of motion, alo ...

BOOK I PART II Here then are three relations betwixt that dis- tance, which conveys the idea of extension, and that other, which ...

BOOK I PART II them, and in all its discourses and reasonings to use the one for the other. This phaenomenon occurs on so many o ...

BOOK I PART II blance, contiguity and causation, as principles of union among ideas, without examining into their causes, it was ...

BOOK I PART II it pleases; whenever it dispatches the spirits into that region of the brain, in which the idea is placed; these ...

BOOK I PART II Of the three relations above-mentioned that of resemblance is the most fertile source of er- ror; and indeed ther ...

BOOK I PART II duce the figures of poets and orators, as suffi- cient proofs of this, were it as usual, as it is rea- sonable, i ...