Map · Book 1: Of the Understanding · Part 2: Of the ideas of space and time · T 1.2.4 Objections answer'd
T 1.2.4.27
SBN 50 · cited directly by 1 paper, reached by 2 more through page or section ranges
Secondly, I repeat what I have already establish'd, that we have no precise idea of equality and inequality, shorter and longer, more than of a right line or a curve; and consequently that the one can never afford us a perfect standard for the other. An exact idea can never be built on such as are loose and undeterminate.
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| Strawson 2011 | 1.4. 2.50 T 1.2.4 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …intainedthatopinioninwo rdsonly,andwereneverabletobringthemselvessincerelytobelieveit(214/1.4. 2.50) 'tisinvaintoask,W… |
| 1.2.4.27,67 this paragraph Citation pattern | …/1.2.4.33;unfixed,seee.g.189/1.4.2.6;inadequate,seee.g.160/1. 3.14.10;imprecise,seee.g.50/1.2.4.27,67n/ 7.15n;loose,seee.… | |
| Cottrell 2015 | T 1.4.2.46 - 55 T 1.2.4.20 to T 1.2.5.5 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …uses of our sensory impressions and attributes the defining properties of a body to them (T 1.4.2.46 - 55; SBN 211 - 17). He … |
| Rocknak 2019 | T 1.4.2.49-50 T 1.2.4 (6 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ct objects that, as such, allegedly cause our interrupted and varied perceptions of them (T 1.4.2.49-50; SBN 213). In this … |
| T 1.4.2.43-53 T 1.2.4.10 to T 1.2.5.1 (26 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …to the senses," where he discusses the philosopher's rejection of the vulgar perspective (T 1.4.2.43-53; SBN 209-16). Hume'… |