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

Pride of Humility, nor Love or Hatred, ought to be called
. The is a ; and Love>, and are of the .
Then he tells us, "Every Object ( he means) is
determined by an to a certain Degree and direction
of its Motion. &c".[3] But I, as a , and as a
, must say, that no Object is determined by an
to any Thing; for all Objects, ,
are determined in their Motions and Directions, by those
which were to them, and still in them, Almighty>, as I have shewn in my Essay, Chap. 9th.
After having established, as he supposes, the
by which the Motions and Directions of are
determined, he proceeds to examine the Motions and Directions, or
rather the , of the , and tells us, "That in no
single Instance the of any Objects is
discoverable, either by our Senses or Reason, and that we can never
penetrate so far into the Essence and Construction of Bodies, as to
perceive the , on which their mutual Influence depends.
'Tis their alone, with which we are acquainted; and
'tis from the the arises. If Objects
had not an uniform and regular Conjunction with each other, we
should never arrive at any Idea of Cause and Effect; and even after
all, the which enters into that Idea, is nothing but a
Determination of the Mind to pass from one Object to its usual
Attendant, and infer the Existence of one from that of the other.[4]
I shall take no Notice of this Sort of Diction, because
most , to the great prejudice of the Science, affect
to think, and to express their Thoughts, in a Method to
themselves; but I must observe, that if the Author had read, and
considered (for there is a great Difference) the
Works of the great , he would have perceived, that
the of Objects, (by which, I suppose, he means
and ) so far as it depends upon, or proceeds from
any in , has been discovered, and that it depends
upon or proceeds from Cohesion, Attraction, Repulsion, and
Communication of Motion, which are Qualities in different
Degrees to , by the , as I have, after
, shewn in the 9th Chapter of my Essay.
But suppose, these four Qualities depended upon, or proceeded
from some other Quality or Qualities as yet unknown, neither they,
nor those Qualities upon which they depend, nor any or
Quality that is, or can be in , can properly be
said to be the , on which the mutual Influence of
Bodies depends. Because, as passive>, no Part of Matter can ever act upon itself, or
upon any other Part of ; and consequently, can
never of produce any Effect. Therefore, that Being>, supreme or subordinate, which we call , must be the
, on which the mutual Influence of Bodies must