...intellectualism. Hume, though for an end of his own, struck at the heart of the matter when he wrote, "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation...that we must thus make it the model of the universe? " And none the less must we be on guard against the Gefuhlsphilosophie, the feeling-philosophy, which...

...intellectualism. Hume, though for an end of his own, struck at the heart of the matter when he wrote, "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation...that we must thus make it the model of the universe?" And none the less must we be on guard against the Gefuhlsphilosophie, the feeling-philosophy, which...

...But can a conclusion, with any propriety, be transferred from parts to the whole ? " And if it can, " why select so minute, so weak, so bounded a principle...agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must make it the model of the whole universe ? " (ii. 396). " In thisvJ little corner of the world alone...

...activities of the world just because it causes some one particular thing? As Hume long ago put it: "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation...that we must thus make it the model of the universe?" Why should we leap from this single instance of mental causation to a universal truth? Because, I answer,...

...from the part to the whole. But even if we could, what peculiar privilege has the little agitation in the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Can we imagine that nature incessantly copies herself throughout so immense a universe...

...Boston — uses the term "humanism" in a wide way, reminding one of David Hume's pungent utterance : "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain, which we call thought, that we must make it the model of the universe?" A man is not less a man, but more a man, more "human," when he...

...the foundation of our judgment concerning the origin of the whole (which never can be admitted), yet why select so minute, so weak, so bounded a principle...thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions ; but sound...

...admitted), yet why select so minute, 30 weak, so bounded a principle, as the reason of animals is hound to be upon this planet ? What peculiar privilege has...agitation of the brain, which we call thought, that ve must thus make it the model of the universe ? ' 3 There are, he afterwards says, four principles...

...enemies. Hume, the greatest philosopher of the age, will deny the possibility of philosophy, asking, "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation...thought, that we must thus make it the model of the universe?"5 This archsceptic also represents, with Gibbon and Robertson, the growth of an all-embracing...

...the foundation of our judgement concerning the origin of the whole (which never can be admitted) yet why select so minute, so weak, so bounded a principle as the reason and design of animals is found to bo upon this planet ? What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call...