This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 edition. Excerpt: ...at every ftep be irrefiftible, that of the firft on the laft mull be fo too.-To mention the various circumftances of appre-henfion, judgement, will, effort, thought of every kind, which are peculiar to per-fons, and which may be conceived to account for the difference in the cafe of per-fons and in that of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 edition. Excerpt: ...at every ftep be irrefiftible, that of the firft on the laft mull be fo too.-To mention the various circumftances of appre-henfion, judgement, will, effort, thought of every kind, which are peculiar to per-fons, and which may be conceived to account for the difference in the cafe of per-fons and in that of lifelefs bodies, requires, in the firtl place, fome appeals to con-fcioufnefs; and, in the fecond place, implies the ufe of many vague and ambiguous terms; and, laftly, it is in fact, though not in words, an acknowledgement that the conjunction of motive and action is not conftant, but occafionally fe-parable; and a fpecification of the fteps of the procefs, or feries of events, where the Conjunction in queftion is broken, where the influence of motives is found not to be irrefillible, and where the aid of another principle of change is required. Suppofing that all thefe inferences which I have drawn from the principle of ' Vide p. 84. 85. 86. 232. 233. inertia wsrtia of mind as well as of body, and the irrefiftible influence of motives, as well as of phyfical caufes, firft on the fuppofi-tion of the conftant conjunftion, fecondly on the fuppofition of the occaftonal and feparable conjunftion of caufe and effect, and of motive and action, are ftrictly neceflary confequences of that principle; it muft, I think, be admitted, that they have all the other qualities and conditions which are fpecified, Seet. IV. p. 128. and 129. to which I here beg leave to refer, as it is needlefs to repeat what is there ftated fo particularly; and I truft they will be thought by every attentive and candid reafoner to juftify and eftablifh the pro-pofitions aflerted p. 125. 126. 127. and 130. 131. 132. concerning the import of the notion of motive, or " that for the...
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Add this copy of Philosophical and Literary Essays, Volume 2 to cart. $61.04, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
