“Now as we call every thing , which proceeds from a past repe…”

“Now as we call every thing , which proceeds from a past repetition, without any new reasoning or conclusion, we may establish it as a certain truth, that all the belief, which follows upon any present impression, is deriv'd solely from that origin.”

— David Hume

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Part 3, Section 8

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