 | Clarence J. Glacken - 1976 - 806 páginas
..."the springs and principles of the universe" and are totally inadequate to explain its principles. "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation...thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe?" Nature has an infinite number of springs and principles. Witnessing the origins of... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1920 - 504 páginas
...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... | |
 | Michael Anthony Corey - 1993 - 356 páginas
...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 as the reason and design of animals [that are] found to be upon this planet. What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain... | |
 | Wayne Waxman - 2003 - 368 páginas
...to " transfer the determination of the thought to external objects" (7168; see £VII/ii.60n.) ; for "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation...'thought,' that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe?" (£>H. 19). Before truths regarding relations of ideas can be believed to apply to... | |
 | Daniel C. Dennett - 1996 - 596 páginas
...From observing the growth of a hair, can we learn any thing concerning the generation of a man? . . /What peculiar privilege has this little agitation...thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? . . . Admirable conclusion! Stone, wood, brick, iron, brass have not, at this time,... | |
 | Lewis S. Feuer - 524 páginas
...reason when he denies that its imaginations can be in any way analogous to a divine creative reason: 'why select so minute, so weak, so bounded a principle as the reason and design of animals' as 'the foundation of our judgment concerning the origin of the whole . . .?', asks Hume; '[w]hat peculiar... | |
 | Steven T. Katz - 1997 - 264 páginas
..."But can a conclusion, with any propriety, be transferred from part to whole? . . . What particular privilege has this little agitation of the brain which...thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favor does indeed present it on all occasions, but sound... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - 158 páginas
...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 favor does indeed present it on all occasions, but sound... | |
 | David Hume - 1998 - 260 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 500 páginas
...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...of the brain, which we call thought, that we must make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present itself... | |
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... why select so minute, so weak, so bounded a principle as the reason and design of animals is found to be upon this planet? What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of... 
