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 29by David Hume - 1826Full view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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