 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 pàgines
...This answer we must endeavour both to explain and td defend. : i. • It must certainly be allowed; that nature has kept us at a great distance from all...her secrets, and has afforded us only the knowledge b'fa few silperflcia'l qualities of objects ; while She conceals from us those powers and principles... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pàgines
...understanding. This answer we must endeavour both to explain and to defend. It must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from all...principles on which the influence of these objects entirely depends. Our senses inform us of the colour, weight, and consistence of bread ; but neither sense nor... | |
 | Lady Mary Shepherd - 1824 - 210 pàgines
...elusions from that experience are not " founded on reasoning, or any process of " the understanding; for Nature has kept " us at a great distance from all...on which the influence of " these objects entirely depends." Thirdly. — " But notwithstanding this " ignorance of natural powers and princi" pies, we... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - 1830 - 682 pàgines
...elusions from that experience are not " founded on reasoning, or any process of " the understanding; for Nature has kept " us at a great distance from all...on which the influence of " these objects entirely depends." Thirdly.—" But notwithstanding this " ignorance of natural powers and princi" pies, we... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pàgines
...understandmg. This answer we must endeavor both to explain and to defend. It must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from .all her secrets, and has afforded iis only the knowledge of a few superficial qualities of objects ; while she conceals from us those... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 pàgines
...understanding. Nature only affords us the knowledge of a few superficial qualities of objects, but conceals from us those powers and principles on which the influence of these objects entirely depends. Our senses inform us of the color, weight, and consistence of bread ; but neither sense nor... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - 1867 - 352 pàgines
...safely abandon the well-tried principles of the oracles of God ? " It must be allowed," says Mr Hume, " that nature has kept us at a great distance from all her secrets, and has afforded us only a few superficial qualities of objects, while she conceals those powers and principles on which the... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 510 pàgines
...correspond to the words quoted in the text from the Treatise of Human Nature, ' It must certainly be allowed that Nature has kept us at a great distance from all her secrets ; ' and that Hume, while he thought that philosophical truth lay very deep, either thought that historical... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 pàgines
...truism. Nature, he thinks, affords us only a superficial knowledge of the qualities of things, but " conceals from us those powers and principles on which the influence of these objects entirely depends Our senses inform us of the color and consistence of bread, but neither sense nor reason can... | |
 | Thomas Harper - 1881 - 798 pàgines
...which is vulgarly supposed to excite or cause them. Thus, he writes, ' It must certainly be allow'd, that nature has kept us at a great distance from all...objects entirely depends1.' He adds yet more boldly, ' "Pis allowed on all hands, that there is no known connexion betwixt the sensible qualities and the... | |
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It must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from all her secrets, and has afforded us only the knowledge of a few superficial qualities of objects, while she conceals from us those powers and principles on which the influence... 
