- Hume on Space and Time | The Oxford Handbook of Hume | Oxford . . .
For Hume, the ideas of space and of time are each a general idea of some indivisible objects arranged in a certain manner with additional qualities that make them conceivable to the mind He argues that the structures of these ideas reflect the structures of space and time
- Hume Texts Online - David Hume
'Tis certain then, that time, as it exists, must be compos'd of indivisible moments For if in time we could never arrive at an end of division, and if each moment, as it succeeds another, were not perfectly single and indivisible, there would be an infinite number of co-existent moments, or parts of time; which I believe will be allow'd to be
- 4 - Hume’s Theory of Space and Time in Its Skeptical Context
In Treatise 1 2, Of the ideas of space and time, Hume examines our ideas of spatial extension and temporal duration, our ideas of geometric equality, straightness, flatness, and mathematical point, and our ideas of a vacuum and of time without change Hume does not, however, restrict his attention to these ideas; he also draws conclusions about
- Hume: Indivisibility of Space and Time - Academia. edu
If time were not indivisible then we would have an infinite number of co-existent moments or parts of time From this Hume concludes that the infinite divisibility of space implies that of time By defining the nature of time and objects in space, Hume makes the connection of time and space and their indivisibility (1 2 2 6, 31)
- The Infinite Divisibility of Our Ideas of Space and Time
that it is impossible for the imagination to create an adequate idea of what goes beyond a certain size There are ideas and images perfectly simple and indivisible Therefore, nothing can be smaller, than: some ideas which we form in the fancy, and; some images which appear to the senses The only defect of our senses is that they:
- Hume on identity over time and persons - University of Notre Dame
To answer this question, we’ll have to look at Hume’s ideas on change and identity in general, a topic to which he turns next 2 Change and identity Hume thinks that we confuse the ideas of identity and diversity (or, as we might put it, distinctness) Examples of identity and diversity are easy to give:
- Humean Causation and the Necessity of Temporal Discontinuity
well aware, presupposes that time is continuous If we accept Hume's idea that time comes in 'indivisible parts', then Russell's argument is impotent At a minimum, the idea of indivisible temporal parts entails that time is discrete For simplicity let the temporal manifold of indivisible parts be 6 Hume, p 76
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