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. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...by a particular volition of the Deity.' brance as is not in time, distinguished according to the two faces which, he de-' its 'matter' being in time, it has to present severally to past crib ' and future. The remembrance is the measure of the expecta-conception tion, but as the remembrance carries with it the ...
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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. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...by a particular volition of the Deity.' brance as is not in time, distinguished according to the two faces which, he de-' its 'matter' being in time, it has to present severally to past crib ' and future. The remembrance is the measure of the expecta-conception tion, but as the remembrance carries with it the notion of a of a system world whose existence does not depend on its being remembered, and whose laws do not vary according to the regularity or looseness with which our ideas are associated, so too does the expectation, and only as so doing becomes the mover and regulator of'inference from the known to the unknown.' 325. In the passage already quoted, where Hume is speik This explains his occasional inconsistent ascription of an objective character to causa rirn, ing of the expectation in question as depending simply on habit, he yet speaks of it as an expectation 'of the same train of objects to which we have been accustomed.' These words in effect imply that it is not habit, as constituted simply by the repetition of separate sequences of feelings, that governs the expectation--in which case, as we have seen, the expectation would be made up of expectations as many and as various in strength as have been the sequences and their several degrees of regularity--but, if habit in any sense, habit as itself governed by conceptions of 'identity and distinct continued existence, ' in virtue of which, as past experience is not an indefinite series of perishing impressions of separate men but represents one world, so all fresh experience becomes part' of the same train of objects;' part of a system of which, as a whole, 'the change lies only in the time.' If now we look back to the account given of the relation of memory to belief we shall find that...
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