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David Hume
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

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1 II, 0, 15 | species; yet we find the same observation to take place in a less 2 III, 0, 19 | be too obvious to escape observation, that different ideas are 3 IV, I, 25 | without consulting past observation; after what manner, I beseech 4 IV, I, 25 | without the assistance of observation and experience.~ 5 IV, I, 26 | analogy, experience, and observation. But as to the causes of 6 IV, I, 26 | portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness 7 IV, I, 27 | mind, independent of all observation, it never could suggest 8 V, I, 36(*)| entirely from sense and observation, by which we learn what 9 V, I, 36 | can assign no reason but observation and experience. The only 10 V, I, 36 | laws and senates: But the observation of any fraud or cruelty 11 V, I, 36 | not to have formed, from observation, many general and just maxims 12 VII, I, 53 | but only by experience and observation, as in all other natural 13 VIII, I, 65 | at present lie under our observation than the men described by 14 VIII, I, 66 | with the persons and our observation of their conduct could never 15 VIII, I, 67 | into certainty by farther observation, when they remark that, 16 VIII, I, 67 | whole movement. From the observation of several parallel instances, 17 IX, 0, 82 | have ever fallen under his observation. But where the objects have 18 IX, 0, 83 | who have learned, by long observation, to avoid what hurt them, 19 IX, 0, 83 | founded in any thing but his observation and experience.~ This is 20 IX, 0, 83 | has always found in its observation to result from similar objects.~ 21 IX, 0, 84 | lie too abstruse for the observation of such imperfect understandings; 22 IX, 0, 84 | fall under our notice and observation. *~We shall here endeavour 23 IX, 0, 85 | attention and memory and observation, this will make a very great 24 IX, 0, 90 | general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; 25 IX, 0, 94 | of their knowledge from observation, there are also many parts 26 X, I, 96 | may learn from a diligent observation. All effects follow not 27 X, I, 97 | other principle than our observation of the veracity of human 28 X, I, 97 | derived from experience and observation. Where this experience is 29 X, I, 98 | seldom fallen under our observation, here is a contest of two 30 X, II, 106 | to regular experience and observation, when we account for it 31 X, II, 108 | still reduces us to past observation, and obliges us to compare 32 XI, 0, 121 | founded in experience and observation. But did we know man only 33 XI, 0, 122 | immediately fallen under our observation. Greater good produced by 34 XI, 0, 122 | already known by practice and observation. So that my apology for 35 XI, 0, 124 | has ever fallen under our observation. It is only when two species 36 XI, 0, 124 | cause. If experience and observation and analogy be, indeed,


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