 | Alvin Plantinga - 2000 - 529 pages
...despair: she "cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends" (p. 269). Still, the enlightened person, Hume thinks, holds the consolations of Nature at arm's length.... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations,... | |
 | Ann Banfield - 2007 - 456 pages
...among ordinary things"(;\/«Z), 87), amidst chatter and Hume's "lively impressions of the senses": "I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse,...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd and ridiculous,... | |
 | James Fieser - 2000 - 340 pages
...conviction." Treatise of Human Nature, vol. 1. p. 474. [Treatise, 1.4.7] 87 "I dine, I play a game at back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous,... | |
 | David O'Connor, George Pattison - 2001 - 252 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Kevin D. Hoover - 2001 - 330 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear cold, and strain'd and ridiculous,... | |
 | Harold Netland - 2001 - 372 pages
...reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds [of doubt], nature herself suffices for that purpose. ... I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and 37For... | |
 | Michael Huemer - 2001 - 236 pages
...earlier characterization of skepticism in chapter I. 16. Hume admitted this in a famous passage: 1 dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...herself. By rejoining the world and regaining his sociability, he restored his mental equilibrium: 'I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when ... I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I... | |
 | Samuel Todes - 2001 - 402 pages
...since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose. . . . I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when ... I would return to these speculations, they appear . . . ridiculous.72 This is certainly one of... | |
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Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and... 
