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An Essay Upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, Controverting the Doctrine of Mr. Hume Concerning the Nature of That Relation, with Observations Upon the Opinions of Dr. Brown and Mr. Lawrence [By Lady M. Shepherd].

An Essay Upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, Controverting the Doctrine of Mr. Hume Concerning the Nature of That Relation, with Observations Upon the Opinions of Dr. Brown and Mr. Lawrence [By Lady M. Shepherd].


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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... jects; but imagining there is, this imagination arises, from a Customary ObserVation, of the invariableness of their antecedence and subsequence;--which invariableness, however, does not prove, that each connexion may be more than an insulated casual event; not obligatory in nature; therefore other subsequent events might, without a contradiction, be imagined to happen after similar antecedents, and a different order of events might be supposed in the " course of nature." Now shortly the whole of this reasoning concerning the possibility of nature altering her course, is but a circle! for the argument is invented to show that Custom not ReaSon, must be the only ground of our belief in the relation of Cause and Effect.--But it is impossible to imagine such a change in nature, unless reason were previously excluded as the principle of that relation;--and it is impossible to exclude reason as the principle of that relation, except by supposing that nature may alter her course.--Thus the idea of causation, is founded only on experience, experience is supplied with arguments by custom not by reason and custom is supported in her authority by a supposed change in nature f, impossible to any idea of causation J, Unless already supposed to be merely the effect of custom . "The opinion that a cause is necessary to every "new production arises from experience."--Tkeatise. Nor must we conclude this branch of the subject, without observing the contradiction that lies in the very endeavour to persuade the world that custom is the true "Cause of Belief" in necessary connexion, when before assenting to such a doctrine it must give up all usual habits of thinking upon the subject, and believe upon Mr. Hume's reasoning, what it never before bel...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151311115
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151311111
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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