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 | Christina E. Erneling - 1993 - 274 pages
...together with the combinatorial tendencies of the mind gives rise to new knowledge. In David Hume's words: and that all this creative power of the mind amounts...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. 20 Does creativity here, as well as in Plato's... | |
 | Wayne Waxman - 2003 - 368 pages
...the senses for the provision of its materials: "we shall find, upon a nearer examination, that it is confined within very narrow limits, and that all this...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience" (£11.13; see also £V/ii.39 and TAbs(A%). One... | |
 | David R. Olson - 1996 - 344 pages
...perceptions," from the less direct and less lively "thoughts and ideas." The powers of the mind "amount to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded by the senses" (p. 34). Because ideas are products of the mind, they are "naturally... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 pages
...memories of past 197 impressions or anticipations of future ones, on the other hand. What we regard as the "creative power of the mind amounts to no more than...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience" — namely, our perceptions. For example, the idea... | |
 | Antony Flew - 1998 - 228 pages
...fact a further limitation; and with this we come to the second stage. For "though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find upon...really confined within very narrow limits, and that this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting,... | |
 | Roland Omnès - 2002 - 324 pages
...sum up his main thesis: "But though our thought seems to possess [an] unbounded liberty, [one finds], upon a nearer examination, that it is really confined...compounding, transposing, augmenting or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience." The only function of our mind is therefore to... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 408 pages
...authority, but is not even restrained within the limits of nature and reality. But though our thoughts seem to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...creative power of the mind amounts to no more than compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience.... | |
 | Shelly Chaiken, Yaacov Trope - 1999 - 676 pages
...has the power to repeat, compare, unite, and associate ideas, forming new and complex 15 thoughts. "All this creative power of the mind amounts to no...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience" (Hume, 17SS, p. 30). Whereas the philosophical... | |
 | John W. N. Watkins - 1999 - 374 pages
...no-invention-of-ideas thesis in relation to major theoretical advances in science. Hume declared that the 'creative power of the mind amounts to no more than...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience' (Enquiries, # 13); in other words, creativity consists... | |
 | Various - 2002 - 596 pages
...beyond the power of thought except what implies an absolute contradiction. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find upon...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join... | |
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