...back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends" and finds his foregoing doubts "so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther" (269). As in Rochester, the terrifying image of doubt as a boundless ocean ironically supports an attitude...

...or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. (THN: 269) And. from the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, here is one of several passages that...

...with my friends; and when ... I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.' 96 'Be a philosopher,' he concluded; 'but amidst all your philosophy be still a man.' 97 Once his Treatisehad...

...or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determin'd to live, and talk, and act like other...

...Treatise of Human Nature, ed. LA Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Clarendon, 1965), pp. 268-69. 4"Ibid., p. 415. ridiculous that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live and talk and act like other people...

...with my friends; and when ... I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.'96 'Be a philosopher,' he concluded; 'but amidst all your philosophy be still a man.'97 Once...

...or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. (A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, section VTIl The great subverter oi Pyrrhonism or the...

...or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther." Hume did not share the Cartesian belief that the work of a solitary designer, a lone craftsman, is...

...three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live and talk and act like...

...or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determin'd to live, and talk, and act like other...