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| W.T. Jones - 1973 - 320 pages
...qualitatively distinct impressions (discreteness-bias) into a confused mess. Thus: "Though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses . . . . " * Outer-Bias We have remarked that Hume's insistence... | |
| Gordon B. Moskowitz - 2005 - 632 pages
...produce more complex knowledge through a process of association: Though our thought seems to possess unbounded liberty, we shall find, upon a nearer examination,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join... | |
| David Hume - 2004 - 116 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,...nearer examination, that it is really confined within ver) narrow limits, and that all this creative power of the mind amounts to no more man the faculty... | |
| W. Ross Winterowd - 2004 - 200 pages
...beyond the Power of Thought, except what implies an absolute Contradiction" (22). But tho' Thought seems to possess this unbounded Liberty, we shall find, upon a nearer Examination, that it is really confin'd within very narrow Limits, and that all this creative Power of the Mind amounts to no more... | |
| Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - 2005 - 424 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,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 pages
...thought "seems," says Hume, "to possess" the "unbounded liberty" he has just noted, we find, on closer examination, "that it is really confined within very...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded to us by the senses and experience." When, for example, we think of a "golden mountain,"... | |
| Roland Omnès - 2005 - 300 pages
...really confined within 2 Lakoff and Nunez 2000, 9. (This quotation is borrowed from Henderson 2002.) very narrow limits and that all this creative power...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience." Concerning language, one may quote Locke: "Words... | |
| Cyril Smith - 2005 - 248 pages
...thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty. . . it is really confined within very narrow limits. ... All this creative power of the mind amounts to no...compounding, transposing, augmenting or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. (An Enquirv Concerning Human Understanding) power.... | |
| Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 668 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,...that all this creative power of the mind amounts to more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded... | |
| Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - 897 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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