T 1.3.16.3
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This doctrine is as useful as it is obvious, and furnishes us with a kind of touchstone, by which we may try every system in this species of philosophy. 'Tis from the resemblance of the external actions of animals to those we ourselves perform, that we judge their internal likewise to resemble ours; and the same principle of reasoning, carry'd one step farther, will make us conclude that since our internal actions resemble each other, the causes, from which they are deriv'd, |must also be resembling. When any hypothesis, therefore, is advanc'd to explain a mental operation, which is common to men and beasts, we must apply the same hypothesis to both; and as every true hypothesis will abide this trial, so I may venture to affirm, that no false one will ever be able to endure it. The common defect of those systems, which philosophers have employ'd to account for the actions of the mind, is, that they suppose such a subtility and refinement of thought, as not only exceeds the capacity of mere animals, but even of children and the common people in our own species; who are notwithstanding susceptible of the same emotions and affections as persons of the most accomplish'd genius and understanding. Such a subtility is a clear proof of the falshood, as the contrary simplicity of the truth, of any system.
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| Loeb 1992 | 1.3.16 T 1.3.16 (9 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …me principles in much the same way" (p. 120). - 4.The remaining occurrence is at T 178 of 1.3.16, "Ofthe reason of a… |
| Garral 2007 | (T 150, 173-76) T 1.3.13.12 to T 1.3.16.3 (18 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …492), or causal reasoning distills rules or norms by which to judge of causes and effects (T 150, 173-76) - so here, in Hume,… |
| Rocknak 2019 | 1.3.16 T 1.3.16 (9 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …BN 92, 1.3.12.20; SBN 139), or as "reason" (T 1.3.8.12; SBN 103). In fact, he even titles 1.3.16, "of the reason of … |