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" Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe. "
Hume - Page 122
by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 216 pages
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Essays and treatises on several subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...figures. That three times Jive is equal to the half of thirty, expresses a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the...operation of thought, without dependence on what is any where existent in the universe. Though there nerer were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...figures. That three times Jive is equal to the half of thirty, expresses a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the...operation of thought, without dependence on what is any where existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...figures. That three times Jive is equal to the half of thirty, expresses a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the...operation of thought, without dependence on what is any where existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths...
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Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Darstellung der ..., Volume 2, Part 1

Johann Eduard Erdmann - Philosophy, Modern - 1840 - 476 pages
...arithmetic, and in short every affirmation which is either intuitively or demonstratively certain. — Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the...operation of thought, without dependence on what is any where existent in the universe. Sect. IV. p. 27. The only objects of the abstract sciences or of...
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The Philosophical Works, Volume 4

David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...Thai //tree times five is equal to ihe half of thirl//, expresses a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the...dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for...
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Sir William Hamilton: Being the Philosophy of Perception : an Analysis

James Hutchison Stirling - Perception - 1865 - 174 pages
...characterises these truths of the second class thus : — ' Propositions of this kind are * See Note at end. discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without...dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe: though there never were a true circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would...
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The Principles of Psychology: Special analysis. General analysis. Corollaries

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1872 - 670 pages
...figures. That three times five is equal to the half of thirty, expresses a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the...dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for...
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The Principles of psychology, Volume 2

Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 678 pages
...figures. That three times Jive is equal to the half of thirty, expresses a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the...dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe. Though there nover were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1873 - 670 pages
...Let us see how it agrees with this class. Hume says that propositions respecting relations of ideas "are discoverable by the mere operation of thought,...dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe." But if BO, this proposition that a rope of which I see one end has got another end, cannot be a relation...
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Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-sense Metaphysics: With Some of Their ...

William Thomas Thornton - Ethics - 1873 - 318 pages
...those of which geometry, algebra, and arithmetic treat, and which are either intuitively certain, or ' discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without...dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe,' as, for example, the truths demonstrated by Euclid, which would be equally incontestable even ' though...
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