 | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah - 1996 - 289 σελίδες
...the objects of pure curiosity. There is no question of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man; and there is none, which can...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science. In pretending therefore to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a compleat... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 σελίδες
...interdependent. Indeed, says Hume, "There is no question of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man; and there is none, which can...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science." And as this science is "the only solid foundation for the other sciences," so its only adequate foundation... | |
 | Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1998 - 710 σελίδες
...the mutual dependence of humans: There is no question of importance, whose decision is not compris'd in the science of man; and there is none, which can...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science . . . And as the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences, so the only solid... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 408 σελίδες
...are the objects of pure curiosity. There is no question of importance whose decision is not comprised in the Science of Man, and there is none which can...certainty before we become acquainted with that science. In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of Human Nature, we, in effect, propose a complete... | |
 | Guy Story Brown - 2000 - 460 σελίδες
...the "solid foundation" because "there is no question of importance whose decision is not comprised in the science of man; and there is none which can...certainty before we become acquainted with that science." And, "the only solid foundation we can give this science itself must be laid on experience and observation."18... | |
 | Anne Jaap Jacobson - 2010 - 340 σελίδες
...Hume at his word when he says: "There is no question of importance, whose decision is not comprised in the science of man; and there is none, which can...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science. In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a complete... | |
 | Miguel A. Badía Cabrera - 2001 - 358 σελίδες
...outset of the Treatise Hume says: There is no question of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man; and there is none which can...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science (THN, Introduction, xx). Certainly that remark serves to illustrate the great extent to which Hume... | |
 | John H. Zammito - 2002 - 600 σελίδες
...philosophical researches. . . . There is no question of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man; and there is none, which can...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science. In pretending therefore to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a compleat... | |
 | Paul Gifford - 2003 - 244 σελίδες
...by one passage or another . . . There is no question of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man; and there is none, which can...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science. In [purporting] therefore to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a compleat... | |
 | Hugh G. Gauch - 2003 - 458 σελίδες
...mental capacities and limitations. "There is no question of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man; and there is none, which can...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science" (John Biro, in Norton 1993:34). Second, Hume rigorously adopted an empiricist theory of meaning, requiring... | |
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There is no question of importance whose decision is not comprised in the science of man; and there is none which can be decided with any certainty before we become acquainted with that science. 
