This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 edition. Excerpt: ... ESSAY IL CHAP. I. OT THE HUMAN MIND AHD ITS MODIFICATIONS. 369. By the human mind, we denote the principle or subject of our perceptions, whether sensations, ideas, notions, thoughts, judgments, rolitions, desires, aversions, &c. which we call our self, of which we are conscious; we can even inser by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 edition. Excerpt: ... ESSAY IL CHAP. I. OT THE HUMAN MIND AHD ITS MODIFICATIONS. 369. By the human mind, we denote the principle or subject of our perceptions, whether sensations, ideas, notions, thoughts, judgments, rolitions, desires, aversions, &c. which we call our self, of which we are conscious; we can even inser by reasoning, from the impossibility of the existence of modes without a common subject, that such a subject really exists: by a spirit T understand that indivisible unextended thing which thinks, acts, and perceives. See Berkeley's Third Dialogue, p. 293. 370. Tet Mr. Hume asserts, * "that manu kind are nothing but a bundle of percepu tions, which succeed each other with an in"conceiveable rapidity, and are in a perpe"tual flux and movement." And again, "we may observe, that the' true idea of the ** mind, is to. consider it as a system of dif * Treatise on Human Nature, p. 361. 437. 439. 453. 11 z ** serent "serent perceptions or different existence8 "which are linked together, by the relation "of cause and effect, and mutually produce. "destroy, influence, and modify, each other." These strange affections are entirely grounded on this, that we have no idea o(Jels, as if we did not know many things of which we have no idea in the strict sense of that word; thus we have no idea of joy or grief, judgment or volition, though we well know what thofe words indicate. 371. In the delusive plausibility of such reasoning, the hyloists, * or supporters of the existence of what they call material substance, loudly triumph, as they think the reasoning of Berkeley against the existence of matter, grounded on similar principles, and' therefore equally visionary and absurd: 'but they are much mistaken; the salsehood of Hume's reasoning, if it can be so called, ...
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