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Page 155
... belief : but I have no reason for believing the existence of Matter . I have no immediate intuition thereof : neither can I mediately from my sensations , ideas , notions , actions or passions , infer an unthinking , unperceiving , in ...
... belief : but I have no reason for believing the existence of Matter . I have no immediate intuition thereof : neither can I mediately from my sensations , ideas , notions , actions or passions , infer an unthinking , unperceiving , in ...
Page 205
... Belief The idea of an object is an essential part of the belief of it , but not the whole . We conceive many things which we do not believe . In order , then , to discover more fully the nature of belief , or the qualities of those ...
... Belief The idea of an object is an essential part of the belief of it , but not the whole . We conceive many things which we do not believe . In order , then , to discover more fully the nature of belief , or the qualities of those ...
Page 207
... belief does nothing but vary the manner in which we conceive any object , it can only bestow on our ideas an additional force and vivacity . An opinion , therefore , or belief , may be most accurately defined , A lively idea related to ...
... belief does nothing but vary the manner in which we conceive any object , it can only bestow on our ideas an additional force and vivacity . An opinion , therefore , or belief , may be most accurately defined , A lively idea related to ...
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abstract general ideas abstract ideas AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT agreement or disagreement answer appear aqua regia assert belief Berkeley Berkeley's betwixt body causation cause and effect ceived certainty coexistence colour complex ideas conceive concerning connexion consider constant conjunction continued Descartes discover distinct ideas distinguishable doctrine empirical empiricism empiricist ence entities evident existence experience figure G. E. Moore George Berkeley give human Hume Hume's ideas of substances identity imagination impossible intuitive intuitive knowledge Johann Georg Hamann knowledge Leibniz Locke Locke's logical mathematics matter means metaphysical mind motion nature never nominal essence observe ontology operations opinion particular perceive perceptions Phil philosophers primary qualities principle produce properties propositions question real essence reason reflection relation resemblance secondary qualities sensation senses sensible qualities simple ideas smell sort species Stuart Hampshire substratum suppose theory things thought tion triangle true truth understanding wherein words