Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities, both primary and secondary, you in a manner annihilate it, and leave only a certain unknown, inexplicable something, as the cause of our perceptions ; a notion so imperfect, that no sceptic will think... Scottish Philosophy in Its National Development - Page 72by Henry Laurie - 1902 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
| Else Wentscher - Causation - 1921 - 406 pages
...unsrer Perzeptionen. Diesen Gedanken spricht am deutlichsten der Satz (Enquiry, Sect. XII p. 155) aus: „Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities,...will think it worth while to contend against it". Wir dürfen also Humes erkenntnistheoretischen Standpunkt im Enquiry nicht mehr als Idealismus im Sinne... | |
| Else Wentscher - Causation - 1921 - 406 pages
...unsrer Perzeptionen. Diesen Gedanken spricht am deutlichsten der Satz (Enquiry, Sect. XII p. 155) aus: „Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities,...notion so imperfect, that no sceptic will think it worin while to contend against it". Wir dürfen also Humes erkenntnistheoretischen Standpunkt im Enquiry... | |
| Roy Wood Sellars - Philosophy - 1926 - 568 pages
...least if it be a principle of reason, that all sensible qualities are in the mind, not in the object. Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities,...of our perceptions; a notion so imperfect that no skeptic will think it worth while to contend against it."1 It is clear that Hume thinks that representative... | |
| David Hume - Philosophy - 1927 - 444 pages
...least, if it be a principle of reason, that all sensible qualities are in the mind, not in the object. Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities,...sceptic will think it worth while to contend against it. PART II IT MAY seem a very extravagant attempt of the sceptics to destroy reason by argument and ratiocination;... | |
| Thomas Case - Education - 1927 - 308 pages
...right to speculate on the cause of this world of moving bodies. Hume, the consistent agnostic, left only ' a certain unknown, inexplicable something as...will think it worth while to contend against it*. But the moment Mr. Spencer presumes to say that it is something resistant and persistent, agnosticism... | |
| Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...least, if it be a principle of reason, that all sensible qualities are in the mind, not in the object. Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities,...sceptic will think it worth while to contend against it. PART II It may seem a very extravagant attempt of the sceptics to destroy reason by argument and ratiocination;... | |
| Richard Henry Popkin - Philosophy - 1993 - 404 pages
...beings. " Treatise, pp. 225-32; and Enquiry, pp. 126-27. " Treatise, p. 228. In the Enquiry, Hume stated, "Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities,...sceptic will think it worth while to contend against it" (p. 127). " Treatise, p. 231. In the Appendix to the Treatise, Hume announced that the above conclusions... | |
| Wayne Waxman - Philosophy - 2003 - 368 pages
...it might enliven). Hume left no doubt as to his low opinion of the inconceivable supposition theory: "Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities,...sceptic will think it worth while to contend against it" (£XII/i.l23). Many commentators, most persuasively Wilson, nevertheless maintain that Hume was a partisan... | |
| Jonathan Westphal - Philosophy - 1995 - 180 pages
...least, if it be a principle of reason, that all sensible qualities are in the mind, not in the object. Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities,...sceptic will think it worth while to contend against it. 3. This argument is drawn from DR. BERKELEY; \A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowkdgc,... | |
| Wayne P. Pomerleau - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 566 pages
...reasserts his thesis concerning the unknowability of bodies apart from their experienced appearances: Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities,...unknown, inexplicable something, as the cause of our perceptions.32 Again, this is an epistemological, rather than an ontological, point that is sceptical... | |
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