| David Hume - 1760 - 314 ˹éÒ
...fmaJlcr and more imyerfcct degree, ap. appeared in the paft. Without the influence of cuftom, we fhould be entirely Ignorant of every matter of fact, beyond what is immediately prefent to the memory and fenfes. We mould never know how to adjuft means to ends, or to employ our... | |
| David Hume - 1779 - 548 ˹éÒ
...impulfe. All inferences from exoerience, therefore, are effects of cuftom, not of reafoning *. Cuftom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience ufeful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a fimilar train of events with thofe which have... | |
| David Hume - 1817 - 540 ˹éÒ
...like impulse. All inferences from experience, therefore, are effects of custom, not of reasoninga. Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It...makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of event s with those which have appeared in the past. Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely... | |
| Aristotle - 1823 - 510 ˹éÒ
...reason, is the ground of all our conclusions concerning existence, or matter of fact. 'Tis custom that renders our experience useful to us, and makes us...fact, beyond what is immediately present to the memory or senses."33 Indeed ! this certainly is to carry the power of custom far beyond the limits assigned... | |
| David Hume - 1826 - 628 ˹éÒ
...abuses that ambition in every age and country has been found to make of so imprudent a confidence. Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It...similar train of events with those which have appeared form very plausible conjectures with regard to the consequences of such a particular conduct in such... | |
| David Hume - 1854 - 596 ˹éÒ
...superficial. Custom, then, is the greatj£jjcle of human life. It is that principle alone^hicnrenders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect,...past. / 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.... | |
| sir Charles James Watkin Williams - 1855 - 90 ˹éÒ
...like impulse. All inferences from experience, therefore, are the effects of custom, not of reasoning. Without the influence of custom we should be entirely...fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory or senses. § 10. Yet, although our conclusions from experience carry us beyond our memory and senses,... | |
| Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 514 ˹éÒ
...Solution of these Doubts,' and ' Of the Idea of Necessary Connection.' Hume says : — ' Custom or habit is the great guide of human life. It is that principle...is immediately present to the memory and senses.' l It appears from the following passage that he uses the word ' custom ' or ' habit,' ' customary transition... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 ˹éÒ
...which we are not able to draw from one instance, that is in no respect different from them." . . . "Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It...events with those which have appeared in the past. "... "All belief of matter-of-fact or real existence is derived merely from some object present to... | |
| 1883 - 836 ˹éÒ
...which we are not able to draw from one instance, that is in no respect different from them." . . . " Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It...events with those which have appeared in the past." ... " All belief of matter-of-fact or real-existence is derived merely from some object present to... | |
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