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" When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No.... "
The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to Arendt - Page 374
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

David Hume - 1758 - 568 pages
...of reafoning and enquiry. When we run over libraries, perfuaded of thefe principles, what havoc muft we make ? If we take in our hand any volume ; of divinity or fchool metaphyfics, for inftance -, let us afk, Does it contain any abßraSi reafonings concerning...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1

David Hume - 1760 - 314 pages
...and enquiry. M 5 WHEK . WKEI* we run over libraries, perfuaded of thefe pruiciplcr,, what havoc muft we make ? If we take in our hand- any volume ;• of divinity or fchool metaphyfics, for inftance ; let us afk, Dees it. contain any abJlra8 reafonings {interning quantity...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

David Hume - 1804 - 552 pages
...object of reasoning and inquiry. When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havock must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume ;...metaphysics, for instance ; let us ask, Does it contain any at'trict reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. L'jes if, contain any experimental reasoning...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...wit, the general taste of mankind, or some such fact, which maybe the object of reasoning and inquiry. When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Dees it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it...
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Essays and treatises on several subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...wit, the general taste of mankind, or some such fact which may be the object of reasoning and inquiry. When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concei'ning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing...
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Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Darstellung der ..., Volume 2, Part 1

Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1840 - 460 pages
...attributes or qualities we can by analogy infer any attribute or quality in him. Sect. XI. p. 145. 152. 154. When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,...concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence? No. Commit it then to the flames, for...
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Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Darstellung der ..., Volume 2, Part 1

Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1840 - 476 pages
...attributes or qualities we can by analogy infer any attribute or quality in him. Sect. XI. p. 145. 152. 154. When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If ive take in our hand any volume, of divinity or school metaphysics for instance , let us ask , does...
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The Philosophical Works, Volume 4

David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...wit, the general taste of mankind, or some such fact which may be the object of reasoning and inquiry. When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our • That impious maxim of the ancient philosophy, Ex nihilo, nihil ft, by which the creation of matter...
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Francis Bacon of Verulam, tr. by J. Oxenford

Ernst Kuno B. Fischer - 1857 - 540 pages
...of which custom is the only guide. "When," says Hume, at the conclusion of his Enquiry, " we use our libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc...metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstraet reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning...
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Immortality, 4 sermons. Hulsean lects., 1868

John James Stewart Perowne (bp. of Worcester.) - 1869 - 180 pages
...instance, he quotes with approval the following passage from one of Hume's Essays : — "If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or School Metaphysics,...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 1 No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit...
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