"David Hume - An Account of Necessity" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hume David)

the Unlearned, we hope the latter will, in Complaisance to the
former, excuse our publishing the following Dissertation, which, we
think, may be of great Use, tho' it may not perhaps be so
entertaining to those that never have employed their Thoughts about
such Subjects.

AUTHOR COMMON SENSE.
,
AS I published lately Immateriality and Free Agency of the Soul>, which one of your
Correspondents has already taken notice of, and as the establishing
of both these Doctrines is, in my Opinion necessary for the
Establishment of Religion, Virtue, and Morality, nay, and even of
itself, I must beg you'll [by printer] give what
follows a Place in your Paper.
The of Human Action is a Doctrine so agreeable to
Reason, and to the common Sense of Mankind, that it is never opposed
but by those who either lay down to themselves ,
or the they make Use of; which is the chief Cause
of that impenetrable Obscurity and incomprehensible Jargon, we find
in the Writings of almost all those, who have hitherto appeared as
for .
Mr. , I think, is the only one, who has treated the
Subject with any Order or Perspicuity. As he was a Gentleman of a
most extensive Genius, and a clear Understanding, he has, indeed,

expressed himself so as to be understood; but I have, in the above
mentioned Essay, answered every Philosophical Argument he has
advanced in favour of ; and, I hope, I have done it to
the Satisfaction of all those who delight in what is plain and easy,
and do not think that every piece of ought to
above the of .
What follows, I intend as a Answer to a Book
lately published, intitled, , the Author
of which seems, if I understand him, which, I profess, I am not
quite sure of, to adopt the , in the 4th and
last Part of the 2d Book of his Performance; but,
according to Custom, he stumbles at his first setting out.
He desires it may be observed, and I desire it too, "That by
the , he means nothing but and are conscious of, when we knowingly give Rise to any new Motion
of our Body, or new Perception of our Mind>".[2] Now, does not every
one see, that by this Definition he means, if he means what every
understanding Man must mean, not the , or what we call the
. After this Definition he goes on thus.
'[printer?] This Impression; (meaning the ) like the preceding
ones of Pride and Humility, Love and Hatred, 'tis impossible to
define, and needless to describe any farther, &c." What Pity it is,
he did not think of this before he gave us his Definition? But by
his Favour, if I understand the Language, (which is
generally the Dispute among ) neither the Will, nor

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