T 1.2.5.19
SBN 60 · cited directly by 2 papers, reached by 2 more through page or section ranges
These relations betwixt the two kinds of distance will afford us an easy reason, why the one has so often been taken for the other, and why we imagine we have an idea of extension without the idea of any object either of the sight or feeling. For we may establish it as a general maxim in this science of human nature, that wherever there is a close relation betwixt two ideas, the mind is very apt to mistake them, and in all its discourses and reasonings to use the one for the other. This phænomenon occurs on so many occasions, and is of such consequence, that I cannot forbear stopping a moment to examine its causes. I shall only premise, that we must distinguish exactly betwixt the phænomenon itself, and the causes, which I shall assign for it; and must not imagine from any uncertainty in the latter, that the former is also uncertain. The phænomenon may be real, tho' my explication be chimerical. The falshood of the one is no consequence of that of the other; tho' at the same time we may observe, that 'tis very natural for us to draw such a consequence; which is an evident instance of that very principle, which I endeavour to explain.
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| Spector 1998 | 2.3.2.
60 T 1.2.5 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ot make any difference for the problems of paramnesia, or false memory, as we shall see in 2.3.2. 60Essay 2.27.9, p. 335… |
| Winkler 2010 | (p. 60) T 1.2.5 (2 paragraphs) Checked by model | …bjects and perceptions, and the difference in their relations, connections, and durations (p. 60), there is, nonethel… |
| Loeb 1992 | 1.2.5 T 1.2.5 (30 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … any thing unchangeable be ever said to have duration. (T 37) He returns to the theme in 1.2.5: 226Hume Studies A… |
| Strawson 2011 | 1.2.5 T 1.2.5 (30 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …heresomewhere(withaceteri sparibusclausetocoverglitchesinthebrainofthesortdiscussedin60-1/1.2.5. 20),althoughwedon'… |