 The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Pagina 79geredigeerd door - 1846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John R. Rice - 1969 - 440 pagina’s
...into which his speculations plunged him. He said of those speculations: "They have so wrought upon me and heated my brain that I am ready to reject all...opinion even as more probable or likely than another." And yet, though pretending to great diligence in the search after truth, and using all his fine powers... | |
 | Ann Banfield - 2007 - 456 pagina’s
...am plac'd in my philosophy": When l turn my eye inward, I lind nothing but doubt and ignorance . . . Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable... | |
 | James Fieser - 2000 - 340 pagina’s
...whose brains are heated with metaphysic are not startled at paradoxes or contradictions, because we are ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or more likely than another.]190 You are no true philosopher if you begin your inquiries with the belief... | |
 | Alvin Plantinga - 2000 - 528 pagina’s
...leading of reason, he winds up time after time in a black coal pit, not knowing which way to turn: Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on... | |
 | Kevin D. Hoover - 2001 - 330 pagina’s
...intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all...I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favor shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on... | |
 | Manfred Kuehn - 2001 - 580 pagina’s
...intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all...I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pagina’s
...made it clear that the 'science of man' was necessarily sceptical in tendency: it was essential to ask 'Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?'80 From this standpoint he explored the grounding of belief - received 'truth' was largely... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pagina’s
...intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all...opinion even as more probable or likely than another" (1, iv, 268-269). Like Johnson's astronomer in Rasselas, whose over-conscientious application to experience... | |
 | Louis E. Loeb - 2002 - 302 pagina’s
...inference "reasons justly." Yet, in I.iv.7, Hume unravels his earlier constructive results. He writes: "I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and...opinion even as more probable or likely than another" (T 268-69). This does not mean that Hume is ready to suspend all belief; some beliefs are irresistible... | |
 | James K. Beilby - 2002 - 308 pagina’s
...and leading of reason, he winds up time after time in a black coalpit, not knowing which way to turn: Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on... | |
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