 | Asa Mahan - 2003 - 494 pages
...credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author of the Treatise on the Human Nature is so sceptical as to plead this apology. He believed, against his...honour and reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumen.1 He continues further in this strain, dragging in the old error about Pyrrho 'having inconsistently... | |
 | Gordon Graham - 2004 - 264 pages
...his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine, that the author of the Treatise of human nature is so sceptical as to plead this apology. He believed, against his...reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumen. Indeed he ingenuously acknowledges, that it was only in solitude and retirement that he could yield any assent... | |
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... It may perhaps be unreasonable to complain of this conduct in an author who neither believes his own existence nor that of his reader; and therefore could not mean to disappoint him, or to laugh at his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author... 
