...concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any cKperimental reasoning concerning matter of faet and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames :...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." Hume's assertion, that Mathematics deals with relations of Kan'1.8 unH;" standmg of ideas, and that...

...quantity or number 1 ' "No. ' Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter or fact or existence ? ' No. ' Commit it then to the flames ;...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' " l Hume of course presupposes that, in his philosophy, all human ideas must be either those involved...

...' No. ' Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter or fact or existence ? ' Uo. ' Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' " 1 Hume of course presupposes that, in his philosophy, nll human ideas must bo either those involved...

...we run through libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics,...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." VL Hume represents thus, indeed, the extreme of purely philosophical skepticism in the eighteenth century....

...instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Docs it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." VI. Hume represents thus, indeed, the extreme of purely philosophical skepticism in the eighteenth...

...peace and tranquillity of mind, but they fall very much short of bringing men to it. — Tillotson. •If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. — Hume. This same philosophy is a good horse in a stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. — Goldsmith....

...for instance, let us ask, Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? JVo. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." TL Hume represents thus, indeed, the extreme of purely philosophical skepticism in the eighteenth century....

...instance, let us ask, Docs it contain any abs'. nut reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Docs it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. " 1 Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...

...But that any one thing exists, this he will not allow can be known. Hence for all history he says, "commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." Yet he spent much time over his History of England. Was he more consistent than Berkeley, whose declining...

...edition, vol. i, pp. 159 fl. VOl. I — 0 1 Inquiry concerning the Human Understanding that Hume wrote : " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." How this advice is to dispel perplexity at " the advancing tide of matter and the tightening grasp...