 A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.  The New International Encyclopaedia - Stran 364uredili: - 1906Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Terence Penelhum - 1992 - 240 strani
...appearance always conveys the thought to that other." In the Treatise, Hume's definition is more elaborate: "an object precedent and contiguous to another, and...the one to form a more lively idea of the other." Hume has made it clear that, as he puts it in the Treatise, "necessity is something that exists in... | |
 | Wayne Waxman - 2003 - 368 strani
...defining the natural relation, is a synthesis of the ideas of necessity, precedence, and contiguity: "A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to...of the one to form a more lively idea of the other" (7170).12 Hume's definition of philosophical cause and effect differs from that of the natural relation... | |
 | Paul Russell - 2002 - 218 strani
...we have Hume's second definition of cause as it exists in our thought or perceptions, definition C:: "A cause is an object precedent and contiguous to...of the one to form a more lively idea of the other" (my emphasis). It is by considering causation as we find it in our perceptions that we discover that... | |
 | Oliver A. Johnson - 1995 - 398 strani
...those objects, that resemble the latter' "(170). In defining "cause" as a natural relation he writes: "A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to...the one to form a more lively idea of the other'" (170). These two definitions have been the subject of much discussion, as well as controversy, among... | |
 | Peter Anthony White - 1995 - 344 strani
..."A cause is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of one determines the mind to form the idea of the other,...the one to form a more lively idea of the other". Critical analysis of this can be found in Ducasse (1974b). Two features of Hume's philosophy are worthy... | |
 | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah - 1996 - 289 strani
...of precedency to those objects, that resemble the latter.' (THN 170) The second definition states: 'A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to...the one to form a more lively idea of the other.' (THN 170) Near the end of Enquiry VII ("Of the Idea of necessary Connexion"), Hume provides a similar... | |
 | Margaret Atherton - 1999 - 288 strani
...precedency to those objects, that resemble the latter.' [THN 170] The second definition states that: 'A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to...the one to form a more lively idea of the other.' [THN 170] Near the end of Section VII of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (entitled "Of the... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 408 strani
...relations of precedency and contiguity to those objects that resemble the latter. In the latter sense, a cause is an object precedent and contiguous to another,...the one to form a more lively idea of the other." I now refer the reader to the three Sections already mentioned, as found in the 2d Vol. of Mr. Hume's... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1999 - 606 strani
...placed in like relations of precedency and contiguity to those objects that resemble the latter'. (b) 'A cause is an object precedent and contiguous to...the one to form a more lively idea of the other.' The definition of cause given in (a) is based on philosophical analysis, and, in (b) it is based on... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 strani
...precedency and contiguity to those objects that resemble the latter'.1 Considered as a natural relation, 'a cause is an object precedent and contiguous to...impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other'.2 It is to be noted that 'though causation be a philosophical relation, as implying contiguity,... | |
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