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" Suitably to this experience, therefore, we may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second. Or in other words where, if the first object had not been,... "
Encyclopędia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E ... - Page 394
by Encyclopaedia - 1845
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...cause to be an object, follows edfiy another, and where all the object s> similar to the first, are followed by objects similar to the second. Or$ in...conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the idea cf the effect. Of this also we have experience. We may, therefore, suitably to this experience, form...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 9

1817 - 608 pages
...even of Hume himself is sometimes quite as strong as this. One of his definitions of cause is, — ' where if the first object had not been, the second never had existed.' p. 88, Inquiry. And again ' 'tis universally allowed, (says he) that matter, in all its operations,...
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Inquiry Into the Relation of Cause and Effect

Thomas Brown - Causation - 1822 - 266 pages
...define a cause to be, An object followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first, are followed by objects similar to the second. Or, in...the first object had not been, the second never had exitted." This last circumstance, if very rigidly examined, is not admissible into a just definition...
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An Essay Upon the Relation of Cause and Effect: Controverting the Doctrine ...

Lady Mary Shepherd - Causation - 1824 - 210 pages
...be an ob" ject followed by another; and where all " the objects similar to the first are follow" ed by objects similar to the second ; or, in " other...first object " had not been, the second never had ex" isted." Course without a contradiction in terms ; and, finally, show, that Custom and Habit alone...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects ...

David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...define a cause to be an oltject, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second. Or,- in...conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the id«a of the effect. Of this also we have experience. We may, therefore, suitably to this experience,...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - English essays - 1825 - 546 pages
...a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all tlie objects similar to t/ie first are followed by objects similar to the second. Or, in other words, where, if the first oty'ect had not been, the second never had existed. The appearance of a cause always conveys the mind,...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - Natural theology - 1825 - 526 pages
...define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second. Or, in other words, where, if tfie first olg-ect had not been, the second never had existed. The appearance of a cause always conveys...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...define a cause to be an object followed by another, and where all the objects, similar to the first, are followed by objects similar to the second. Or, in other words, where, ifthejirst object had not been, the second never had existed. The appearance of a cause always conveys...
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History of the Philosophy of Mind: Embracing the Opinions ..., Volume 4, Part 1

Robert Blakey - Philosophy - 1830 - 420 pages
...We may define a cause to be an object followed by another ;" and again, in his third definition, " The appearance of a cause always conveys the mind,...customary transition, to the idea of the effect." This doctrine has been very generally adopted by nearly all the Scottish metaphysicians, though they...
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A Review of the Principles of Necessary and Contingent Truth, in Reference ...

Alfred Lyall - Truth - 1830 - 682 pages
...containing the original definition, we may be sure of, from what fol- , lows; for he goes on to say, " or in other " words, where if the first object had not " been, the second never had existed;" but this idea expresses a much stncter necessity of connexion than does the relation of any number...
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