Map · Book 1: Of the Understanding · Part 1: Of Ideas, their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, &c · T 1.1.7 Of abstract ideas
T 1.1.7.12
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First then I observe, that when we mention any great |number, such as a thousand, the mind has generally no adequate idea of it, but only a power of producing such an idea, by its adequate idea of the decimals, under which the number is comprehended. This imperfection, however, in our ideas, is never felt in our reasonings; which seems to be an instance parallel to the present one of universal ideas.
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| Garrett 1981 | (T17-24) T 1.1.6.3 to T 1.1.7.17 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …plying the term 'oneself'. This idea of oneself is obviously a "general or abstract idea" (T17-24), consisting, as suc… |
| Ainslie 2009 | T 1.1.7 T 1.1.7 (20 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …an is sometimes assumed. Most obviously, as Hume shows his treatment of general thoughts (T 1.1.7), our tendency to a… |
| Strawson 2011 | 1.1.7.2-14 T 1.1.7 (13 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …cu re,unclear,seee.g.33/1.2.3.1,162/1.3.14.14,648/Abs§7,78n/ 7.29n;imperfect,seee.g.18-23/1.1.7.2-14,222/1.4.3.8,77/7.29… |
| Pitson 2013 | SBN 21-22 T 1.1.7 (6 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nd if it is impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion" (EHU 2.9; SBN 21-22). All this seems ha… |
| SBN 23 T 1.1.7 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …s a principle of connexion between the different thoughts or ideas of the mind" (EHU 3.1; SBN 23)-as confirmation of… |