Project Gutenberg #4705

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

1739

Hume's major work on knowledge, mind, and morality, prepared section by section from Project Gutenberg HTML.

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SECT. III. OF THE OTHER QUALITIES OF OUR IDEA OF SPACE AND TIME.

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Chapter 15 — SECT. III. OF THE OTHER QUALITIES OF OUR IDEA OF SPACE AND TIME. Central question What else belongs to our idea of space and time? Main argument Hume examines how extension, succession, and duration...

# A Treatise of Human Nature

**Author:** David Hume
**Source:** Project Gutenberg #4705
**License:** Public domain in the United States
**Section:** 15. SECT. III. OF THE OTHER QUALITIES OF OUR IDEA OF SPACE AND TIME.
**Page:** 2 of 2

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Hume's major work on knowledge, mind, and morality, prepared section by section from Project Gutenberg HTML.

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imagination.
Now such as the parts are, such is the whole. If a point be not considered as coloured or tangible, it can convey to us no idea; and consequently the idea of extension, which is composed of the ideas of these points, can never possibly exist. But if the idea of extension really can exist, as we are conscious it does, its parts must also exist; and in order to that, must be considered as coloured or tangible. We have therefore no idea of space or extension, but when we regard it as an object either of our sight or feeling.
The same reasoning will prove, that the indivisible moments of time must be filled with some real object or existence, whose succession forms the duration, and makes it be conceivable by the mind.

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imagination. Now such as the parts are, such is the whole. If a point be not considered as coloured or tangible, it can convey to us no idea; and consequently the idea of extension, which is composed of the ideas of these points, can never possibly exist. But if the idea of extension really can exist, as we are conscious it does, its parts must also exist; and in order to that, must be considered as coloured or tangible. We have therefore no idea of space or extension, but when we regard it as an object either of our sight or feeling. The same reasoning will prove, that the indivisible moments of time must be filled with some real object or existence, whose succession forms the duration, and makes it be conceivable by the mind.

A Treatise of Human Nature

SECT. III. OF THE OTHER QUALITIES OF OUR IDEA OF SPACE AND TIME.

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