 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 592 pages
...perception. The present philosophy, therefore, has so far a promising aspect. But all my hopes vanish, when I come to explain the principles that unite our...gives me satisfaction on this head. In short, there sre two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either of them,... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1890 - 458 pages
...so conjoined. Hume's account was, however, confessedly inadequate. " All my hopes," he said, "vanish when I come to explain the principles that unite our...successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (Treatise on Human Nature, Green & Grose's ed., i. 559). These words exactly define Kant's problem,... | |
 | James Ward - Agnosticism - 1899 - 320 pages
...Treatise. No wonder then that in an appendix to later editions he confesses : "But all my hopes vanish, when I come to explain the principles that unite our...theory which gives me satisfaction on this head." 2 This principle that Hume cannot find is, of course, Kant's 'originally synthetic unity of apperception.'... | |
 | Norman Kemp Smith - Philosophy, Modern - 1902 - 304 pages
...admit that he is incapable of accounting even for our consciousness of time. " All my hopes vanish, when I come to explain the principles, that unite...theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head." l That admission must not, however, be taken as justifying the Cartesian view of the self. Eather we... | |
 | James Macbride Sterrett - Idealism - 1904 - 136 pages
...that unite our various perceptions in our thought or consciousness. I can not discover any principle which gives me satisfaction on this head. In short, there are two principles which I can not render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. , that all our distinct... | |
 | Frank Sewall - Apologetics - 1906 - 228 pages
...thought or perception. The present philosophy, therefore, has a promising aspect. But all my hopes vanish •when I come to explain the principles that unite...thought or consciousness. I cannot discover any theory that gives me satisfaction on this head. Indeed, there are two principles which I cannot render consistent,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1906 - 788 pages
...his confession concerning his own theory of cognition that it was " but a rope of sand," and that " there are two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either." In brief the idealistic hypothesis is an illusion — is not a real idea but only a pseud-idea. There... | |
 | Gustav Gottlieb Wenzlaff - Psychology - 1909 - 282 pages
...objection to this theory is given by Hume himself in an appendix to his Treatise. "But all my hopes vanish, when I come to explain the principles that unite our...theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head." Successive perceptions, no matter how rapidly they succeed each other, would still be successive and... | |
 | Anne Mary Nicholson - Values - 1910 - 148 pages
...thought or perception. The present philosophy therefore has a promising aspect. But all my hopes vanish when I come to explain the principles that unite our successive perceptions in our thought to consciousness. I cannot discover any theory which gives me satisfaction on this head. . . . " In... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1910 - 780 pages
...his confession concerning his own theory of cognition that it was " but a rope of sand," and that " there are two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in 7ny power to renounce either." In brief the idealistic hypothesis is an illusion — is not a real... | |
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But all my hopes vanish, when I come to explain the principles that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness. 
