 ... all our reasonings concerning causes and effects, are derived, from nothing but custom; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of 'our natures.  The Living Age - Page 151917Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. He asserts, that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects, are derived from nothing but custom; and belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our nature. Finally,... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...arguments of that fantastic sect, is only to make the reader sensible of the truth of my hypothesis, that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects, are derived from nothing but custom ; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures.... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...arguments of that fantastic sect, is only to make the reader sensible of the truth of my hypothesis, that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects, are derived from nothing but custom, and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our nature."... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...arise from observation and experience." (Vol. I. p. 147.) Or, as he elsewhere expresses himself; " All our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom ; and, consequently, belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...arise from observation and experience." (Vol. I. p. 147.) Or, as he elsewhere expresses himself; " All our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom ; and, consequently, belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...arise from observation and experience." (Vol. I. p. 147.) Or, as he elsewhere expresses himself; " All our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom ; and, consequently, belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1854 - 660 pages
...necessarily arise from observation and experience." — (Vol. ip 147.) Or, as he elsewhere expresses himself, "All our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom ; and, consequently, belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of... | |
 | william harrison - 1867 - 518 pages
...itself accountable either to science or to the moral sense."J Hume enforces his celebrated argument that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom, and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the active part of our natures, by... | |
 | 1867 - 514 pages
...itself accountable either to science or to the moral sense."J Hume enforces his celebrated argument that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom, aud that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the active part of our natures, by... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophy - 1871 - 798 pages
...arguments of that fantastic sect is only to make the reader sensible of the truth of my hypothesis that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom ; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures.... | |
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