A Treatise of Human Nature

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BOOK I PART III


a greater passion than two; and this it trans-
fers to larger numbers, because of the resem-
blance; and by a general rule assigns to a thou-
sand guineas, a stronger passion than to nine
hundred and ninety nine. These general rules
we shall explain presently.


But beside these two species of probability,
which a-re derived from an imperfect experi-
ence and from contrary causes, there is a third
arising fromanalogy, which differs from them
in some material circumstances. According to
the hypothesis above explained all kinds of rea-
soning from causes or effects are founded on
two particulars, viz., the constant conjunction
of any two objects in all past experience, and
the resemblance of a present object to any one
of them. The effect of these two particulars is,
that the present object invigorates and inlivens

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