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" And though none but a fool or madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience or to reject that great guide of human life... "
A view of the principal deistical writers ... in England in the last and ... - Page 266
by John Leland - 1764
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Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume - 1750 - 272 pages
...Effe&s fimilar to thofe, which we have found to follow from fuch Objects. And tho' none but a Fool or Madman will ever pretend to difpute the Authority...Experience, or to reject that great Guide of human Life ; it may furely be allow'da Philofopher to have fo much Curiofity, at leaft, as to examine the Principle...
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Thoughtful Economic Man: Essays on Rationality, Moral Rules and Benevolence

J. Gay Tulip Meeks - 1991 - 190 pages
...that, be sceptical objections what they may, 'none but a fool or a madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience, or to reject that great guide of human life' (E, p. 36, my emphasis again). It is Hume's general matter of fact approach that Keynes seems most...
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David Hume: An Introduction to His Philosophical System

Terence Penelhum - 1992 - 240 pages
...found to follow from such objects. And though none but a fool or madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience, or to reject that great guide of human life, it may surely be allowed a philosopher to have so much curiosity at least as to examine the principle...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman ...

David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - 170 pages
...found to follow from such objects. And though none but a fool or madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience, or to reject that great guide of human life; it may surely be allowed a philosopher to have so much curiosity at least, as to examine the principle...
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Hume's Theory of Consciousness

Wayne Waxman - 2003 - 368 pages
...disbelieve is as certain as anything can be ("none but a fool or madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience, or to reject that great guide of human life," £TV/ii.31). He legitimately claimed only to have sought to explicate the certainty attaching to the...
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Early Responses to Hume's Metaphysical and Epistemological Writings: Volumes ...

James Fieser - 2005 - 408 pages
...force of experience depend, 'none but a fool or a madman,' he observes, 'will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience, or to reject that great guide of human life.'29 Of our first principles, indeed, it may be remarked, that the very supposition of them, as...
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A Theory of Case-Based Decisions

Itzhak Gilboa, David Schmeidler - 2001 - 214 pages
...found to follow from such objects. And though none but a fool or madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience, or to reject that great guide of human life, it may surely be allowed a philosopher to have so much curiosity at least as to examine the principle...
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Epistemology: Contemporary Readings

Michael Huemer - 2002 - 636 pages
...found to follow from such objects. And though none but a fool or madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience, or to reject that great guide of human life, it may surely be allowed a philosopher to have so much curiosity at least as to examine the principle...
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First Philosophy: Fundamental Problems and Readings in Philosophy

Andrew Bailey - 2002 - 1002 pages
...found to follow from such objects. And though none but a fool or madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience, or to reject that great guide of human life, it may surely be allowed a philosopher to have so much curiosity at least as to examine the principle...
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Ten Great Works of Philosophy

Various - 2002 - 596 pages
...found to follow from such objects. And though none but a fool or madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience or to reject that great guide of human life, it may surely be allowed a philosopher to have so much curiosity at least as to examine the principle...
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