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MAD Ox . But where the ideas are vivid , and there exists an endless power of combining and modifying them , the feelings and affections blend more easily and intimately with these ideal creations , than with the objects of the senses ...
MAD Ox . But where the ideas are vivid , and there exists an endless power of combining and modifying them , the feelings and affections blend more easily and intimately with these ideal creations , than with the objects of the senses ...
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... that compulsion and obligation conveyed two ideas perfectly disparate , and that what appertained to the one , had been falsely transferred to the other by a mere confusion of terms . emblems , or mental words , of ideas . The 91.
... that compulsion and obligation conveyed two ideas perfectly disparate , and that what appertained to the one , had been falsely transferred to the other by a mere confusion of terms . emblems , or mental words , of ideas . The 91.
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He showed , in what sense not only general terms , but generic images ( under the name of abstract ideas ) actually existed , and in what consists their nature and power . As one word may become the general exponent of many , so by ...
He showed , in what sense not only general terms , but generic images ( under the name of abstract ideas ) actually existed , and in what consists their nature and power . As one word may become the general exponent of many , so by ...
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For the objects of any two ideas * need not have co - existed in the same * I here use the word “ idea " in Mr. Hume's sense on account of its general currency among the English metaphysicians ; though against my own judgement , for I ...
For the objects of any two ideas * need not have co - existed in the same * I here use the word “ idea " in Mr. Hume's sense on account of its general currency among the English metaphysicians ; though against my own judgement , for I ...
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The same result will follow when one only of the two ideas has been represented by the senses , and the other by the memory . Long however before either Hobbs or Des Cartes the law of association had been defined , and its important ...
The same result will follow when one only of the two ideas has been represented by the senses , and the other by the memory . Long however before either Hobbs or Des Cartes the law of association had been defined , and its important ...
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