| New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 Seiten
...writes of when he had argued himself into the conviction that mind as well as matter was a figment, and that belief is more -properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our nature — intellect with him being only a succession of impressions and ideas. "I am affrighted and... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1815 - 434 Seiten
...but a manifest truth ; though I conecive it to be very improperly expressed, by saying, that belicf is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our nature. ESSAY VIII. » OP TASTE. CHAP. I. Of TASTE IN GENERAL THAT power of the mind by which we are... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1822 - 322 Seiten
...made the last step in this progress, and crowned the system by what he calls his hypothesis ; to wit, that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our nature. Beyond this, 1 think no man can go in this track ; sensation or feeling is all, and what is... | |
| Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 Seiten
...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, to hasten to the conclusion of this list of absurdities, he asserts, that the doctrine... | |
| David Hume - 1826 - 508 Seiten
...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. I have here proved, that the very same principles, which make us form a decision upon any subject,... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 Seiten
...made the last step in this progress, and crowned the system by what he calls his hypothesis, to wit, that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our nature. Beyond this I think no man can go in this track ; sensation or feeling is all ; and what is... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 Seiten
...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 our natures." (Ibid. p. 321.) latter, it is not improbable, that it may have been suggested by this passage in Hume.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 Seiten
...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 our natures." (Ibid. p. 321.) The distinction here alluded to between the sensitive and the cogitative parts of our... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 Seiten
...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 our natures." (Ibid. p. 321.) The distinction here alluded to between the sensitive and the cogitative parts of our... | |
| Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 Seiten
...made the last step in this progress, and crowned the system by what he calls his hypothesis, to wit, That belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our nature. Beyond this I think no man can go in this track ; sensation or feeling is all, and what is... | |
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