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Relation Quotes by David Hume
- All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still…
- The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
- 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…
- We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that…
- It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if…
- ..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…
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