Single Idea 21309

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism]

Full Idea

No proposition can be intelligible or consistent with regard to objects, which is not so with regard to perceptions.

Gist of Idea

A proposition cannot be intelligible or consistent, if the perceptions are not so

Source

David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature, + Appendix [1740], Appendix)

Book Reference

Hume,David: 'A Treatise of Human Nature', ed/tr. Selby-Bigge/Nidditch [OUP 1978], p.634


A Reaction

An interesting variant on expressions of the empiricist principle. Presumably one can say intelligible things about Escher drawings.