 | Thomas Brown - Bible - 1806 - 232 pages
...conception of an object, than what the imagination; alone is ever able to attain.'* That * He adds:—' This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical,...express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than.fictions,.causes them to weigh more in the thought,... | |
 | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Philosophy, German - 1815 - 594 pages
...unemgefdjránítee „ SSermôgcn/ btefc Sbeen 511 ш|'феп, äufammenäufe|en, ), which may seen» so unphilosophical , is intended only to express „that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken „for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to j, weigh more in the... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination, alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical,...express that act of the mind which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Causation - 1818 - 602 pages
...object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms," he adds, " which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only...express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought,... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...recourse to every one's feeling, in order to give him a perfect notion of this operation of the mind. An idea assented to feels different from a fictitious...calling it a superior force, or vivacity, or solidity, orJirmness, or steadiness. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 626 pages
...forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical,...express that act of the mind which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Causation - 1835 - 486 pages
...object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms," he adds, " which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only...express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1854 - 496 pages
...recourse to every one's feeling, in order to give him a perfect notion of this operation of the mind. An idea assented to feels different from a fictitious...alone presents to us; and this different feeling I endeavor to explain by calling it a superior force, or vivacity, or solidity, or firmness, or steadiness."... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1854 - 482 pages
...recourse to every one's feeling, in order to give him a perfect notion of this operation of the mind. An idea assented to feels different from a fictitious...alone presents to us ; and this different feeling I endeavor to explain by calling it a superior force, or vivacity, or solidity, or firmness, or steadiness"... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the' imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical,...express that act of the mind which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought,... | |
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An idea assented to feels different from a fictitious idea, that the fancy alone presents to us: And this different feeling I endeavour to explain by calling it a superior force, or vivacity, or solidity, or firmness, or steadiness. 
