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" That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it... "
The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... - Page 29
by David Hume - 1826
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...inquire what is the nature of that evidence, which assure's us of any real existence and matter1 of fact, beyond the present testimony of our senses,...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - Natural theology - 1825 - 526 pages
...and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-mwroic-, is BO less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more...therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demon-s stratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly conceived by...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - English essays - 1825 - 546 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rite. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false,...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects ...

David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-tnorrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it wiS rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively...
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The Philosophical Works, Volume 4

David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun mil not rise to-morroiv, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it unlt rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively...
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The Essentials of Philosophy: Wherein Its Constituent Principles are Traced ...

George Jamieson - Philosophy - 1859 - 280 pages
...demonstrable conclusion in mathematics. Hume says no ! and gives an illustration. " That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise." Indeed ! Then it would be equally plausible to say, that two and three will not make five to-morrow,...
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The Principles of Psychology: Special analysis. General analysis. Corollaries

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1872 - 670 pages
...distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no loss intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction,...could never be distinctly conceived by the mind." Here, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications ; in the one of which " all the perceptions...
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Causality, Or, The Philosophy of Law Investigated

George Jamieson - Causation - 1872 - 498 pages
...demonstrable conclusion in mathematics. Hume says no ! and gives an illustration. " That the sun will not rise to.morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise." Indeed ! Then it would be equally plausible to say, that two and three will not make five to.morrow,...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1873 - 670 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...could never be distinctly conceived by the mind." Here, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications ; in the one of which " all the perceptions...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1873 - 672 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. \Ve sheuld in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falseheod. Were it demonstratively false,...
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