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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...influence each other, and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures. As memory alone acquaints us with the continuance...extent of this succession of perceptions, 'tis to be considered, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity. Had we no memory, we never...
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Philosophical Works, Volume 1

David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 470 pages
...influence each other, and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures. As memory alone acquaints us with the continuance and extent of this succession of perceptions, it is to be considered, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity. Had we no memory,...
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Locke's Writings and Philosophy Historically Considered: And Vindicated from ...

Edward Tagart - Hume, David, 1711-1776 - 1855 - 524 pages
...acquaints us with the continuance and extent of the succession of our perceptions, it is to be considered upon that account chiefly as the source of personal identity." "Had we no memory, we never should have any notion of causation, nor consequently of that chain of causes and effects, which constitute...
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The philosophy of natural theology, an essay which obtained a prize at ...

William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...enacted. Hume next discusses the laws of association ; and then proceeds (same Section sub fin.) " As memory alone acquaints us with the continuance...extent of this succession of perceptions, 'tis to be considered, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity. Had we no memory, we never...
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The Philosophy of Natural Theology: An Essay in Confutation of the ...

William Jackson - Natural theology - 1874 - 432 pages
...are enacted. Hume next discusses the laws of association ; and then proceeds (same Section sub fin.) "As memory alone acquaints us with the continuance...extent of this succession of perceptions, 'tis to be considered, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity. Had we no memory, we never...
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A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...influence each other, and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures. As a memory alone acquaints us with the continuance and...extent of this succession of perceptions, 'tis to be considered, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity. Had we no memory, we never...
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The Philosophy of Natural Theology: An Essay in Confutation of the ...

William Jackson - Natural theology - 1875 - 452 pages
...are enacted. Hume next discusses the laws of association; and then proceeds (same Section sub fin.) " As memory alone acquaints us with the continuance...extent of this succession of perceptions, 'tis to be considered, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity. Had we no memory, we never...
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Hume

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...influence each other, and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures. "As memory alone acquaints us with the continuance...extent of this succession of perceptions, tis to be considered, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity. Had we no memory we never...
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The World's Cyclopedia of Biography, Volume 3

Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...influence each other, and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures. " As memory alone acquaints us with the continuance...extent of this succession of perceptions, 'tis to be considered, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity. Had we no memory we never...
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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1888 - 756 pages
...for our past or future pains or pleasures. As memory alone acquaints us with the continuance and I extent of this succession of perceptions, 'tis to...Had we no memory, we never shou'd have any notion of PART IV. causation, nor consequently of that chain of causes and — M — effects, which constitute...
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