T 1.2.1.2
SBN 26-7 · cited directly by 3 papers, reached by 1 more through page or section ranges
'Tis universally allow'd, that the capacity of the mind is limited, and can never attain a full and adequate conception of infinity: And tho' it were not allow'd, 'twou'd be sufficiently evident from the plainest observation and experience. 'Tis also obvious, that whatever is capable of being divided in infinitum, must consist of an infinite number of parts, and |that 'tis impossible to set any bounds to the number of parts, without setting bounds at the same time to the division. It requires scarce any induction to conclude from hence, that the idea, which we form of any finite quality, is not infinitely divisible, but that by proper distinctions and separations we may run up this idea to inferior ones, which will be perfectly simple and indivisible. In rejecting the infinite capacity of the mind, we suppose it may arrive at an end in the division of its ideas; nor are there any possible means of evading the evidence of this conclusion.
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3 of 4 papers cite this paragraph directly; the rest reach it through a page or section range. Snippets are the words around each citation.
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| Garrett 2001 | (Treatise, p. 27) T 1.2.1 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …wenty, much less into a thousand, ten thousand, or an infinite number of different ideas. (Treatise, p. 27) As Frasca-Spada ob… |
| Hatfield 2009 | (Treatise, 26) T 1.2.1 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … of the mind is limited, and can never obtain a full and adequate conception of infinity' (Treatise, 26), and 'whatever is d… |
| Cottrell 2015 | T 1.2.1.2 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ny perceptions. Since Hume holds that no human mind contains infinitely many perceptions (T 1.2.1.2; tions are associa… |
| SBN 26-27 T 1.2.1 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …njoin them more frequently together" (TAbs 35; SBN 662). These passages suggest that, in SBN 26-27), he will reject th… | |
| SBN 15-16, 17, 27, 232-33 T 1.1.5.6 to T 1.4.5.5 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …a of" and "idea that represents," see, for example, T 1.1.6.1, 1.1.6.3, 1.2.1.3, 1.4.5.3; SBN 15-16, 17, 27, 232-33. ## J ONATHAN COT … | |
| Spector 1998 | 1.2.1 T 1.2.1 (5 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …........... 1 1.2 The Personal Identity Problem and the Shift within the Treatise .. .5 1.2.1 The Relationship Be… |
| 1.2.1 T 1.2.1 (5 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …gency itself. ## 1.2 The Personal Identity Problem and the Shift within the Treatise ## 1.2.1 The Relationship Be… |