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" As to causation ; we may observe that the true idea of the human mind is to consider it as a system of different perceptions or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause and effect, and mutually produce, destroy, influence... "
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 344
1810
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A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - 1890 - 598 pages
...of the human mind, Part IV. § 6. It is 'a system of different perceptions or different existences which are linked together by the relation of cause...produce, destroy, influence, and modify each other.'] The order of the universe proves an omnipotent mind ; that is, a mind whose will is constantly attended...
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Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley: Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 pages
...of the human mind is to consider it as a system of different perceptions, or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause...produce, destroy, influence and modify each other. . . . In this respect I cannot compare the soul more properly to anything than a republic or commonwealth,...
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The History of Civilisation in Scotland, Volume 4

John Mackintosh - 1896 - 532 pages
...of the human mind is, to consider it as a system of different perceptions or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause...produce, destroy, influence, and modify each other. Our impressions give rise to their correspondent ideas, and these in their turn produce other impressions....
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Hume: The Relation of the Treatise of Human Nature--book I to the ..., Book 1

William Baird Elkin - 1904 - 352 pages
...of the human mind, is to consider it as a system of different perceptions or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause...produce, destroy, influence, and modify each other." Of course, "produce, destroy, influence, and modify" are not to be understood according to the ordinary...
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The Library of Original Sources: Advance in knowledge, 1650-1800

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...idea of the human mind is to consider it as a system of different perceptions or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause...produce, destroy, influence and modify each other. Our impressions give rise to their correspondent ideas; and these ideas in their turn produce other...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Selections from A Treatise of ...

David Hume - 1907 - 324 pages
...mind, is to consider it as a system of different perceptions or different existences, which are link'd together by the relation of cause and effect, and...produce, destroy, influence, and modify each other. Our impressions give rise to their correspondent ideas; and these ideas in their turn produce other...
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Hume

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 pages
...of the human mind is to consider it as a system of different perceptions, or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause...produce, destroy, influence and modify each other. ... In this respect I cannot compare the soul more properly to anything than a republic or commonwealth,...
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1911 - 862 pages
...of the human Mind is to consider it äs a System of different perceptions, or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause...produce, destroy, influence and modify each other — In this respect I cannot compare the soul more properly to anything than a republic or common-wealth,...
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English Thought for English Thinkers

St. George William Joseph Stock - 1912 - 246 pages
...idea of the human mind is to consider it as a system of different perceptions or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause...produce, destroy, influence, and modify each other." This introduction of causation as the main element appears to bestow on the mind a greater coherence...
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A Criticism of Some Deterministic Systems in Their Relation to Practical ...

Jesse Herrmann - 1914 - 72 pages
...Treatise Hume says : "The human mind is but a system of different perceptions or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause...produce, destroy, influence and modify each other." But in the appendix to the later editions of the Treatise he confesses: "But all my hopes vanish, when...
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