TAILIEUCHUNG - ESSAYS on the PRINCIPLES of MORALITY and NATURAL RELIGIONPART II..u essay i uBeliefDesiring, wishing, resolving, willing, believing, signify all of them simple mental acts that cannot be defined; and yet are understood by all the world, every man b

ESSAYS on the PRINCIPLES of MORALITY and NATURAL RELIGION PART II u essay i u Belief Desiring, wishing, resolving, willing, believing, signify all of them simple mental acts that cannot be defined; and yet are understood by all the world, every man being familiarly acquainted with them passing daily in his own mind. When I say that I believe Caesar was murdered in the senate-house, that Ganganelli was a good Pope, or that the King of Britain has thirteen children, no person has any difficulty to comprehend my meaning: as little on the other hand, when I say that I do not believe in. | ESSAYS on the PRINCIPLES of morality and NATURAL RELIGION PART II u essay i u Belief Desiring wishing resolving willing believing signify all of them simple mental acts that cannot be defined and yet are understood by all the world every man being familiarly acquainted with them passing daily in his own mind. When I say that I believe Caesar was murdered in the senate-house that Ganganelli was a good Pope or that the King of Britain has thirteen children no person has any difficulty to comprehend my meaning as little on the other hand when I say that I do not believe in the Patagonians nor in Mahomet s tomb being suspended in the air between two loadstones. Hence it is that no writer has thought it necessary to analyse belief the author of the treatise on human nature excepted. He lays down two propositions First that belief is not any separate action or perception of the mind but only a certain manner of conceiving propositions. Next that belief making no alteration on the conception as to its parts and composition must consist in the liveliness of the conception. 1 As every particular concerning the human mind is of importance to those who are studious of human nature these propositions shall be put upon trial. The first holds true in some instances but far from holding true in all. This will appear by induction. I see a bird in the air which I believe to be an eagle. My belief enters into my perception of the bird and is not a separate act or perception. Take an opposite example. I see a horse feeding at a distance in an inclosure. My belief that the horse exists enters into my perception of him. I also 1. Not verbatim but Kames s own paraphrase of Hume s argument that belief consists not in the nature and order of our ideas but in the manner of their conception and in their feeling to the mind see Treatise 8 . .

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