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The Purpose of Existence, Popularly Considered, in Relation to the Origin ... - Page 55
1850 - 370 pages
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

David Hume - Commerce - 1758 - 568 pages
...and that precîfe period of time, which fell under its cognizance : But why this experience fhould be extended to future times, and to other objects,...which, for aught we know, may be only in appearance fimilar -, this is the main queftion on which 1 would infiir. The bread, which I formerly eat, nouriihed...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1

David Hume - Economics - 1760 - 314 pages
...objects, and that precife period of time, which fell under its cognizance : But why this experience mould be extended to future times, and to other objects,...which, for aught we know, may be only in appearance fimilar ; this is the main queftion on which I would infill. The bread, which I formerly eat, nourifhed...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...of those precise objects only, and that precise period of time which fell under its cognizance : But why this experience should be extended to future times,...this is the main question on which I would insist. The bread which I formerly eat nourished me ; that is, a body of such sensible qualities was, at that...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...of those precise objects only, and that precise period of time which fell under its cognizance: But why this experience should be extended to future times,...this is the main question on which I would insist. The bread which I formerly eat nourished me; th^t is, a body of such sensible qua& * The word Power...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...those precise objects only, " and that precise period of time, which fell under " its cognizance ; but why this experience should be " extended to future times, and to other objects, — " this is the main question on which I would in" sist. " * What is the proper answer to this ques*...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - English essays - 1825 - 546 pages
...of those precise objects only, and that precise period of time which fell under its cognisance : But why this experience should be extended to future times,...in appearance similar : this is the main question en which I would insist. The bread which I formerly eat nourished me ; that is, a body of such sensible...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...of those precise objects only, and that precise period of time which fell under its cognisance : But why this experience should be extended to future times,...this is the main question on which I would insist. The bread which I formerly eat nourished me ; that is, a body of such sensible qualities was, at that...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...: An inquiry concerning the human ...

David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 626 pages
...of those precise objects only, and that precise period of time which fell under its cognisance : But why this experience should be extended to future times,...only in appearance similar, this is the main question OH which I would insist. The bread which I formerly eat nourished me ; that is, a body of such sensible...
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The Foreign Review, Volume 4

Periodicals - 1829 - 560 pages
...precise objects only which fell under its cognizance. But then why this experience should be extended to other objects which, for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar, is the main question on which we would insist.' He says, in another place, that ' the inference made...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 448 pages
...those precise objects only, and that precise period of time, which fell under its cognizance ; but why this experience should be extended to future times, and to other objects, — this is the main question on which I would insist." * What is the proper answer to this question...
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