...points out, 'is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction . . . That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise . . . All reasonings concerning matters of fact seem to be founded on the relation of cause and effect....

...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,...implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, thut it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively...

...intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. \Ve should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate...and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind. " Hero, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications ; in the one of which " all the perceptions...

...mind with equal facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmative that it will rise. Similarly, Leibnitz (Nouveaux Essais, Avantpropos) remarks : ' ' Though...

...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, and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind."1 Hume then goes on to say that, in his opinion, the sole objects of the abstract sciences of...

...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, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmative, ' that it will rise.' We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood....

...to-morrow,' is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmative, ' that it will rise.' We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its false, hood. Were it demonstrably false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly...

...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, and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind."—(IV. pp. 32, 33.) The distinction here drawn between the truths of geometry and other kinds...

...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,...should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falseHUME AND KANT 223 hood ! " 1 So far Hume and Kant agree. Hume is even at one with Kant in recognising...

...less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it mil rise. "We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate...demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, und could never be distinctly conceived by the mind." Here, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications;...