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" When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other and can never be allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities but what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect. "
A view of the principal deistical writers ... in England in the last and ... - Page 276
by John Leland - 1764
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Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Lewis White Beck - 1966 - 332 pages
...concessions. I desire you to mark the consequences. When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other, and can never be allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect. A body of...
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A Faculty Theory of Knowledge: The Aim and Scope of Hume's First Enquiry

George Stern - 1971 - 172 pages
...call the rule of causal commensurability: When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other, and can never be allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect. 26 The principal...
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01 Enlightenment An Interpretation: The Rise Of Modern Paganism

Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 pages
...of reasoning worth recording here. ( i ) "When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other, and can never be allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect. A body of...
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Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume - 1750 - 272 pages
...Phenomena of Nature will juftify. Thefe are your Concdfions. I defire you to mark the Confequences. WHEN we infer any particular Caufe from an Effect,...proportion the one to the other, and can never be allow'd to afcribe to the Caufe any Qualities, but what arc exactly fufficient to produce the Effect....
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Scepticism and Belief in Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

S. Tweyman - 1986 - 202 pages
...is to be known only through the effect: When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other, and can never be allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect ... If the...
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Critique of Judgment

Immanuel Kant, Werner S. Pluhar - 1987 - 692 pages
...this and the next paragraph, cf. Hume: "When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other, and can never be allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect |I]f we ascribe...
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David Hume: An Introduction to His Philosophical System

Terence Penelhum - 1992 - 240 pages
...concessions. I desire you to mark the consequences. When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other, and can never be allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect. A body of...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman ...

David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - 170 pages
...concessions. I desire you to mark the consequences. When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other, and can never be allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect. 60. [For...
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Principal Writings on Religion: Including Dialogues Concerning Natural ...

David Hume - 1998 - 260 pages
...concessions. I desire you to mark the consequences. When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other, and can never be allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect. A body of...
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The Question of God: An Introduction and Sourcebook

Michael F. Palmer - 2001 - 388 pages
...in his Enquivy, is simple and effective: When we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other, and can never be allowed to asctibe to the cause any qualities, bur what are exactly sufficient to produce the effect. A body of...
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