T 2.3.1.11
SBN 403 · cited directly by 1 paper, reached by 3 more through page or section ranges
I can imagine only one way of eluding this argument, which is by denying that uniformity of human actions, on which it is founded. As long as actions have a constant union and connexion with the situation and temper of the agent, however we may in words refuse to acknowledge the necessity, we really allow the thing. Now some may, perhaps, find a pretext to deny this regular union and connexion. For what is more capricious than human actions? What more inconstant than the desires of man? And what creature departs more widely, not only from right reason, but from his own character and disposition? An hour, a moment is sufficient to make him change from one extreme to another, and overturn what cost the greatest pain and labour to establish. Necessity is regular and certain. Human conduct is irregular and uncertain. The one, therefore, proceeds not from the other.
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1 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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| Ainslie 1995 | (T 403) T 2.3.1 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …uniformities ("the very essence of necessity") gives us warrant to think in terms of them (T 403). The same tension a… |
| Spector 1998 | 2.3.1 T 2.3.1 (18 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …Continuity of Agency Lies.............................................................69 2.3.1 Personality, Consci… |
| 2.3.1 T 2.3.1 (18 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …f law. This seems to support the reading of person/man as abstractions of some kind. (See 2.3.1 for more about this… | |
| 2.3.1 T 2.3.1 (18 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …n of personal identity. See Ayers, op. cit.. ## 2.3 Where Continuity o f Agency Lies ## 2.3.1 Personality, Consci… | |
| 2.3.1 T 2.3.1 (18 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tise also indicates a significant evolution in his whole way of doing philosophy. l06See 2.3.1. ## CHAPTER THREE … | |
| Garrett 2010 | T 2.3.1 T 2.3.1 (18 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …es a similar style of argument in the section of the Treatise "Of liberty and necessity" (T 2.3.1), where he appears … |
| Pitson 2013 | SBN 163, 165, 403, 409 T 1.3.14.16 to T 2.3.2.4 (12 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …time (T 1.2.2.4; SBN 31); power and necessity (T 1.3.14.16, 1.3.14.22, 2.3.1.10, 2.3.2.2; SBN 163, 165, 403, 409); belief (T 1.4.2.2… |