 | Wayne Waxman - Philosophy - 2003 - 368 pages
...existence without a cause. " The important thing, for him, is that " the slightest philosophy . . . teaches us, that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image, or perception" (£XII/i.ll8); and since his own philosophy teaches that perceptions are prior to, and independent... | |
 | Jonathan Westphal - Philosophy - 1995 - 180 pages
...and primary opinion of all men, that we perceive external objects immediately, subjoins what follows: "But this universal and primary opinion of all men...be present to the mind but an image or perception; and that the senses are only the inlets through which these images are received, without being ever... | |
 | J. F. Fuller - 1996 - 342 pages
...and cannot possibly reach any experience of their connexion with objects." ' And again that the "... universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed...be present to the mind but an image or perception, and that the senses are only the inlets through which these images are conveyed, without being able... | |
 | R.D. Gallie - Philosophy - 1998 - 224 pages
...Reid is opposed is given by Hume in his First Enquiry, Section XII, SBplSlf in the following terms. Nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception. (The occurrence of Lockean ideas or sensations in sense perception is expressed in this way in Hume's... | |
 | Margaret Atherton - Philosophy - 1999 - 288 pages
...dispute." The supposition that the images presented by the senses exist in an external universe is "destroyed by the slightest philosophy, which teaches...be present to the mind but an image or perception" (p. 152). "No man, who reflects, ever doubted, that the existences, which we consider, when we say,... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...nature',1 men instinctively take the images presented by the senses to be the external objects themselves. 'But this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy. And no man, who reflects, ever doubted that the existences which we consider when we say this house... | |
 | Edgar V. McKnight - Religion - 1999 - 358 pages
...other." This "universal and primary opinion of all men" is destroyed by the philosophy that teaches that "nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception, and that the senses are only the inlets, through which these images are conveyed, without being able... | |
 | C. J. McCracken, I. C. Tipton - Philosophy - 2000 - 314 pages
...uniform and entire, independent of the situation of intelligent beings, who perceive or contemplate it. But this universal and primary opinion of all men...be present to the mind but an image or perception, and that the senses are only the inlets, through which these images are conveyed, without being able... | |
 | Anne Jaap Jacobson - Social Science - 2010 - 340 pages
...evidence itself of a different nature. Hume seems to address a vulgar direct realism in the following: "But this universal and primary opinion of all men...be present to the mind but an image or perception. . . . The table, which we see, seems to diminish, as we remove farther from it: but the real table,... | |
 | Michael Huemer - Philosophy - 2001 - 236 pages
...might respond to them. 1. The Argument from Perspective Referring to direct realism, David Hume wrote: But this universal and primary opinion of all men...be present to the mind but an image or perception. . . . The table which we see seems to diminish as we remove farther from it; but the real table, which... | |
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But this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy, which teaches us that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception... 
