 | David Hume - 1854 - 564 ˹éÒ
...applicable to the present subject. Eeason is the discovery of truth or falsehood. Truth or falsehood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to...false, and can never be an object of our reason. Now, it is evident our passions, volitions, and actions, are not susceptible of any such agreement or disagreement;... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 572 ˹éÒ
...applicable to the present subject. 4 Reason is the discovery of truth or falsehood. Truth or falsehood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to the real relations of ideas, or to r<".tl existence and matter of fact. Whatever therefore is not susceptible of this agreement or disagreement,... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 756 ˹éÒ
...applicable to the present subject. X' Jleason is__the discovery of truth or falshoo^. Truth or •^ falshood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to...fact. Whatever, therefore, is not susceptible of this agree"TThent or disagreement, is incapable of being true or false, I and can never be an object of... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 752 ˹éÒ
...opposed to the ' world of ideas ' which is the province of demonstration, 414; truth = an agreement either to the real relations of ideas, or to real existence and matter of fact. 448. Reason. §1. Distinctions of, eg between figure and body figured, 25, 43 ; not reason but custom... | |
 | David Hume - 1894 - 296 ˹éÒ
...applicable to the present subject. Reason is the discovery of truth or falsehood. Truth or falsehood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to...relations of ideas, or to real existence and matter of vfact. Whatever, therefore, is not susceptible of this agreenfent or disagreement, is incapable of... | |
 | Dieter Lang - 1981 - 120 ˹éÒ
...Beurteilungen weder wahr noch falsch seien, zur Konsequenz habe, so zB im „Treatise": „Truth or falshood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to...this agreement or disagreement, is incapable of being trueorfalse, ....Now 'tts evident our passions, volitions, and actions, are not susceptible of any... | |
 | Richard Mervyn Hare - 1989 - 274 ˹éÒ
...prejudlee in his famous remark that Reason is the discovery of truth or falsehood. Truth or falsehood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to...or false, and can never be an object of our reason. (1739: III. i. 1) Mackie, in this as in so much else, seems to have been a follower of Hume. That this... | |
 | Gary Carl Hatfield - 1990 - 394 ˹éÒ
...notion of truth itself was not called into question: he endorsed the standard definition of truth as "an agreement or disagreement either to the real relations of ideas, or to real existence and matter of fact."18 Of course, Hume restricted the "real existences" that may be known to present and remembered... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 ˹éÒ
...truth and reason, though an accompanying false judgement can, 483, 490-:. — = agreement either to real relations of ideas or to real existence and matter of fact, 490. if moral distinctions were derived from truth or falsehood of judgements, it would make no difference... | |
 | W. Brand - 1992 - 200 ˹éÒ
...two operations of understanding. 4 Reason is the discovery of truth or falsehood. Truth or falsehood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to...of ideas, or to real existence and matter of fact (T458). True judgments are made when invariable relations are found to hold between fixed ideas or... | |
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Reason is the discovery of truth or falsehood. Truth or falsehood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to the real relations of ideas, or to real existence and matter of fact. 
