| David Hume - Economics - 1760 - 314 pages
...greater clearnefs and precifion in philofophical reafonings, than what they have hitherto been ever able to attain. Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of thofe parts or fimple ideas, that compofe them. But when we have pufhed up definitions... | |
| David Hume - Essays - 1779 - 548 pages
...proper application of it, men may reach a greater clearnefs and precifion in philosophical reafonirigs, than what they have hitherto been able to attain....perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of thofe parts or fimple ideas, that compofe them. But when we have pufhed up definitions... | |
| David Hume - English essays - 1825 - 546 pages
...it, men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings than what they hare hitherto been able to attain. Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions... | |
| David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 626 pages
...men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings than what " Section II, they have hitherto been able to attain. Complex ideas...perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions... | |
| David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...proper application of it, men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings than what they have hitherto been able to attain....perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions... | |
| David Hume - Ethics - 1902 - 419 pages
...proper application of it, men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings, than what they have hitherto been able to attain....perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions... | |
| William Baird Elkin - 1904 - 352 pages
...in a manner implying the same distinction as that made in the Treatise. Incidentally, he remarks:2 "Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them." The difference here recognized,... | |
| David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...proper application of it, men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings, than what they have hitherto been able to attain....perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions... | |
| Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...proper application of it, men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings, than what they have hitherto been able to attain....perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions... | |
| John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume - Philosophers - 1910 - 460 pages
...proper application of it, men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings, than what they have hitherto been able to attain....perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions... | |
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