...the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. "But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience." The fact of meaning, as we have already seen,...

...beyond the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join...

...Human Nature, bk. 1, pt. 1, sect. iii; and in the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, sect. n: 'All this creative power of the mind amounts to no...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience.' 23 Imagination can in this way be an action (whether...

...13-14). He makes interesting and substantive claims concerning these empirical issues - eg, that the "creative power of the mind amounts to no more than...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience" (p. 19), and that the "only three principles of...

...still inferior to the dullest sensation. Where we find no impressions, we find no ideas. [Reasoning] amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded by the senses [and memory]. From similar causes, similar effects follow. [Chemical]...

...pofiefs this unbounded Liberty, we fhall find, upon a nearer Examination, that it is feally confin'd within very narrow Limits, and that all this creative Power of the Mind amounts to no more than the compounding, tranfpofing, augmenting, or diminifhing the Materials afforded us by the Senfes and Experience....

...diaphanic perspective, and his methodological form. He stated that the creative power of the mind or spirit "amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded by the senses of experience."79 Hume combines this logistic doctrine with an emphasis...

...class of Ideas on the occasion of the " comparison," — the Sceptic dogmatically maintains that " the creative power of the Mind amounts to no more than...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the Senses and Experience" (sect. ii. ) While the Intellectualist com* In...

...beyond the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join...

...beyond the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join...