No one but a Limitist will, it is believed, contend against the position of Dr Hopkins, "that this idea of obligation or oughtness is a simple idea.
This is a pure, simple idea, and so can only be known in itself by a seeing--an immediate intuition.
For in simple ideas (as has been shown) the mind is wholly confined to the operation of things upon it, and can make to itself no simple idea, more than what it was received.
Two simple ideas may be connected with one & the same 3d simple idea, or be intromitted by one & the same sense.
Succession a simple idea, [succession is an abstract, i.
If we consider it as a simple idea, as an abstraction from individual reason, as something separate from them, but not real, we strike upon the very rock we try to shun.
On the other hand, when there is no repugnance there is possibility; then, no simple idea, of itself alone, can offer to us an impossible object.
The effect, then, of belief is to raise up a simple idea to an equality with our impressions, and bestow on it a like influence on the passions.
But if any one should deny this universal resemblance, I know no way of convincing him, but by desiring him to shew a simple impression, that has not a correspondent idea, or a simple idea, that has not a correspondent impression.
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