T 2.3.3.7
SBN 416-7 · cited directly by 1 paper, reached by 1 more through page or section ranges
The consequences are evident. Since a passion can never, in any sense, be call'd unreasonable, but when founded on a false supposition, or when it chuses means insufficient for the design'd end, 'tis impossible, that reason and passion can ever oppose each other, or dispute for the government of the will and actions. The moment we perceive the falshood of any supposition, or the insufficiency of any means our passions yield to our reason without any opposition. I |may desire any fruit as of an excellent relish; but whenever you convince me of my mistake, my longing ceases. I may will the performance of certain actions as means of obtaining any desir'd good; but as my willing of these actions is only secondary, and founded on the supposition, that they are causes of the propos'd effect; as soon as I discover the falshood of that supposition, they must become indifferent to me.
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| Ainslie 2003 | T 2.3.3.7 this paragraph Citation pattern | …s of these passions are 'unreasonable7 in that they are 'founded on a false supposition7 (T 2.3.3.7, SBN 416). And this… |
| T 2.3.3.7 this paragraph Citation pattern | …falshood of any supposition ... our passions yield to our reason without any opposition7 (T 2.3.3.7, SBN 416). Of cours… | |
| Ainslie 1999 | II.iii.3 T 2.3.3 (10 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …reas the former , as a merely theoretical belief, can have no practical impor t for Hume (II.iii.3), the latter, as a … |