Space and the Self in Hume's Treatise
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521891622
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Philosophy; History & Surveys - General; Movements - Humanism; Hume, David, --1711-1776.--Treatise of human; Hume, David,--1711-1776.--Treatise of human nature; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Philosophy-Movements - Humanism
First sentence: When you tell me of the thousandth and ten thousandth part of a grain of sand, I have a distinct idea of these numbers and of their different proportions; but the images, which I form in my mind to represent the things themselves, are nothing different from each other, nor inferior to that image, by which I represent the grain of sand itself, which is suppos'd so vastly to exceed them.