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David Hume
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

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belief

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1 V, I, 37 | or must allow that your belief is entirely without foundation.~ 2 V, I, 38 | theories of philosophy. All belief of matter of fact or real 3 V, I, 38 | a nearer approach. This belief is the necessary result 4 V, I, 38 | accurately the nature of this belief, and of the customary conjunction, 5 V, II, 39 | between such a fiction and belief? It lies not merely in any 6 V, II, 39 | difference between fiction and belief lies in some sentiment or 7 V, II, 39 | consists the whole nature of belief. For as there is no matter 8 V, II, 40 | experience of these sentiments. Belief is the true and proper name 9 V, II, 40 | of it. I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, 10 V, II, 40 | can ever, of itself, reach belief, it is evident that belief 11 V, II, 40 | belief, it is evident that belief consists not in the peculiar 12 V, II, 40 | as we observed before, is belief; which is a term that every 13 V, II, 40 | farther than assert, that belief is something felt by the 14 V, II, 40 | allow, that the sentiment of belief is nothing but a conception 15 V, II, 41 | to be the case with that belief which arises from the relation 16 V, II, 44 | in these phaenomena, the belief of the correlative object 17 V, II, 44 | Now I assert, that this belief, where it reaches beyond 18 VI, 0, 46 | begets a like species of belief or opinion.~ There is certainly 19 VI, 0, 46 | still a higher degree of belief or assent to that side, 20 VI, 0, 46 | be much higher, and our belief or expectation of the event 21 VI, 0, 46 | nature, the sentiment of belief, and gives that event the 22 VI, 0, 46 | mind. If we allow, that belief is nothing but a firmer 23 VI, 0, 46 | constitutes the nature of belief and opinion.~ 24 VI, 0, 47 | sentiment which we call belief, and give its object the 25 VIII, I, 71| appearance of one to the belief of the other. But though 26 IX, 0, 84 | manner, which we denominate belief. No other explication can 27 X, I, 96 | therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. In such 28 X, I, 98 | and mutual destruction of belief and authority.~ I should 29 X, I, 100| he pretend to command my belief or opinion.~ ~ 30 X, II, 102| sensible tendency towards the belief of those events, from which 31 XI, 0, 111| the objects of traditional belief, more than of argument or 32 XI, 0, 123| many consequences from the belief of a divine Existence, and 33 XII, I, 127| opinion, and preserve this belief of external objects, in 34 XII, III, 138| affirmations and obstinacy of their belief. But could such dogmatical


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