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Full Idea
When an object is present to memory or senses, custom carries the imagination to that object which is usually conjoined with it. This carries a feeling different from the loose reveries of fantasy, and in this consists the whole nature of belief.
Gist of Idea
Belief is just a particular feeling attached to ideas of objects
Source
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], V.II.39)
Book Ref
Hume,David: 'Enquiries Conc. Human Understanding, Morals', ed/tr. Selby-Bigge/Nidditch [OUP 1975], p.48
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| 2207 | Belief can't be a concept plus an idea, or we could add the idea to fictions [Hume] |
| 2208 | Belief is just a particular feeling attached to ideas of objects [Hume] |
| 7660 | We are aware of beliefs, they appease our doubts, and they are rules of action, or habits [Peirce] |
| 5780 | The three questions about belief are its contents, its success, and its character [Russell] |
| 5426 | Belief relates a mind to several things other than itself [Russell] |
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| 12149 | Indexicals are a problem for beliefs being just subject-proposition relations [Perry] |
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| 4266 | Having beliefs involves recognition, expectation and surprise [Scruton] |