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Matter Quotes by David Hume
- To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of…
- Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
- In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to…
- In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.…
- ... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the…
- ..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and…
- 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…
- All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But…
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