 | E. P. Harris - 1983 - 332 ページ
...experience useful to us. ... Without the influence of custom, ... we should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect." 99 The key here as with Locke is "useful to us." Man builds up an objective world as his compounding... | |
 | David Hume - 1750 - 272 ページ
...Fact, beyond what is immediately prefent to the Memory and Senfes. We mould never know howto adjuft Means to Ends, or to employ our natural Powers in the Production of any Effcct. There would be an End at once of all Action, as well as of the chief Part of Speculation. BUT... | |
 | J. Gay Tulip Meeks - 1991 - 190 ページ
...known) alone, 'we should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers to the production of any effect. There would be an end at once to all action' (E, p. 44). (2) Propositions (c), (d) and (e) Our lack of deductive warrant for inferring... | |
 | Terence Penelhum - 1992 - 240 ページ
...fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. But here it may be proper to remark, that though our conclusions from experience carry... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - 170 ページ
...fact, beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. may be defended, either from reason, which reflecting on the great frailty and corruption... | |
 | David Pierce, Peter Jan de Voogd - 1996 - 228 ページ
...beyond what is immediately present to the memory and the senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. (8) Sentiment on the other hand looks more like an admission of the essential powerlessness... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 ページ
...confined to objects "immediately present to the memory and senses." Planning would be rendered impossible. "There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation." But custom must always be anchored in past experience.50 Custom establishes beliefs,... | |
 | 1998 - 262 ページ
...fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in...once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. Véase también 54-55. Hume y la tradición autobiográfica Isabel DURAN GIMÉNEZ-RICO... | |
 | Thomas D. Lynch - 1997 - 506 ページ
...entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses" and "there would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation" (71). The point of Hume's scepticism is not to help us transcend our customs, habits,... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 ページ
...fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends or to employ our natural powers in the...once of all action as well as of the chief part of speculation. An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 1955:58-59. ; Though there be no such... | |
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Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of... 
