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A new species of optics

Posted by luno in sex differences, Hume, feminism, Moral Theory, Weininger (Monday June 6, 2005 at 9:04 pm)
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From Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1777 edition), p. 62.
Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions to the most simple ideas, and find still some ambiguity and obscurity; what resource […]