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... objects are discerned through the senses , the act is usually named perception ; when objects formerly perceived by us , or facts formerly known to us , are recalled , the mental event is denominated recollection , or mere conception ...
... objects are discerned through the senses , the act is usually named perception ; when objects formerly perceived by us , or facts formerly known to us , are recalled , the mental event is denominated recollection , or mere conception ...
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... object , past , present , or future , and to discern when two facts are presented to the mind , that one is implied in the other , are intellectual acts or operations plainly distinct . If there were no other circumstance by which to ...
... object , past , present , or future , and to discern when two facts are presented to the mind , that one is implied in the other , are intellectual acts or operations plainly distinct . If there were no other circumstance by which to ...
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... objects before it , which , from the nature of the case ( being yet to happen ) , cannot have been observed ; but there is this difference : -in the first example , a past event is inferred from other past facts ; in the second , future ...
... objects before it , which , from the nature of the case ( being yet to happen ) , cannot have been observed ; but there is this difference : -in the first example , a past event is inferred from other past facts ; in the second , future ...
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... objects or events is at once discerned , a single previous instance frequently suffices for an infe- rence ; but in complicated cases , where there is similitude with some degree of diversity , a collection and comparison of various ...
... objects or events is at once discerned , a single previous instance frequently suffices for an infe- rence ; but in complicated cases , where there is similitude with some degree of diversity , a collection and comparison of various ...
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... objects , and may be called particular in- ferences ; but there is another large and important class of conclusions from analogous premises , which are general or universal . The same facts which determine us to believe that a single ...
... objects , and may be called particular in- ferences ; but there is another large and important class of conclusions from analogous premises , which are general or universal . The same facts which determine us to believe that a single ...
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