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Map · Book 2: Of the Passions · Part 3: Of the will and direct passions · T 2.3.6 Of the influence of the imagination on the passions

T 2.3.6.10

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I have already observ'd, that belief is nothing but a lively idea related to a present impression. This vivacity is a requisite circumstance to the exciting all our passions, the calm as well as the violent; nor has a mere fiction of the imagination any considerable influence upon either of them. 'Tis too weak to take any hold of the mind, or be attended with emotion.

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Mcintyre 2009T 2.3.6.10, 2
T 2.3.6 (2 paragraphs)
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…e in the future requires that I trace a causal chain between myself and that future time (T 2.3.6.10, 2.3.7.2). The more re…