T 2.3.6.2
SBN 424-5 · cited directly by 1 paper
Any pleasure, with which we are acquainted, affects us more than any other, which we own to be superior, but of whose nature we are wholly ignorant. Of the one we can form a particular and determinate idea: The other we conceive under the general notion of pleasure; and 'tis certain, |that the more general and universal any of our ideas are, the less influence they have upon the imagination. A general idea, tho' it be nothing but a particular one consider'd in a certain view, is commonly more obscure; and that because no particular idea, by which we represent a general one, is ever fix'd or determinate, but may easily be chang'd for other particular ones, which will serve equally in the representation.
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| Mcintyre 2009 | T 2.3.6.10, 2 T 2.3.6 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …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… |