 | Donald A. Crosby - 1988 - 474 pages
...be regarded as the only sure avenue to completely objective truth. 2. Cf. for example Hume's claim that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and ... however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another.... | |
 | Peter Winch - 1990 - 160 pages
...sciences have a relation, greater or leas, to human nature; and that however wide any of them may aeem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another." Hume's remark is a further reminder of the close relation between the subject of this monograph and... | |
 | Robert B. Edgerton - 2010 - 296 pages
...are by experience. In A Treatise on Human Nature, written in 1739 and 1740, David Hume wrote, " 'Tis evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they will return back by one passage or another." If there is to be a scientific study of human maladaptation,... | |
 | Joseph Mali - 2002 - 296 pages
...cautious and rather dismissive tone now gave way to an impassioned plea: "Tis evident', wrote Hume, 'that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature', so that 'there is no question of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man;... | |
 | Lubor Velecky - 1994 - 156 pages
...saw the importance of philosophical anthropology. Hume, too, in a well-known passage proclaims that " 'T is evident that all the sciences have a relation,...from it, they still return back by one passage or another."19. Hence his hope of success in philosophical researches if we "march up directly to the... | |
 | Martin Hollis - 1994 - 284 pages
...foundation for 'a complete system of the sciences'. It is evident, he remarked in his Introduction, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature. 'Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Natural Religion are in some measure dependent on the science... | |
 | Peggy Zeglin Brand, Carolyn Korsmeyer - 2010 - 506 pages
...Human Nature with a remark that summarizes his entire approach to philosophical investigation: " Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater...from it, they still return back by one passage or another."1 Thus his examinations of knowledge, of ethics, of politics, and — of particular interest... | |
 | Oliver A. Johnson - 1995 - 398 pages
...an instrument of reasoning. Hume is fully aware of this need. So he writes in the introduction: "Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature. . . . Tis impossible to tell what changes and improvements we might make m these sciences were we thoroughly... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1996 - 756 pages
...chap, ix, section 1. a call to have objective knowledge serve human ends. " 'Tis evident," Hume argues, "that all the sciences have a relation, greater or...they still return back by one passage or another." After all, even "Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion" are to some degree "dependent... | |
 | Martin Hollis - 1996 - 300 pages
...University Press, 1956, chapter XII, p. 322. CHAPTER 14 The social destruction of reality It is evident thai all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and thai, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another.... | |
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T is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature, and that, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. 
