 It is a question of fact, whether the perceptions of the senses be produced by external objects resembling them : how shall this question be determined ? By experience, surely ; as all other questions of a like nature. But here experience is, and must...  Scottish Philosophy in Its National Development - Page 70by Henry Laurie - 1902 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Imre Lakatos, Robert S. Cohen, P.K. Feyerabend, Marx W. Wartofsky - Science - 1976 - 788 pages
...the box. An exemplary argument of this kind occurs in Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: It is a question of fact, whether the perceptions...is, and must be entirely silent. The mind has never anything present to it but the perceptions, and cannot possibly reach any experience of their connection... | |
 | Nikolaĭ Onufrievich Losskiĭ - Intuition - 1919 - 466 pages
...existence of such a world cannot be proved. It is impossible, Hume contends, to say with certainty whether the perceptions of the senses be produced by external objects resembling them. " Here experience is and must be entirely silent. The mind has never anything present to it but the... | |
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