Combining Texts

Ideas for 'works', 'Treatise of Human Nature' and 'System of Logic'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

1 idea

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

21291	There is no medium state between existence and non-existence [Hume]
	Full Idea: Betwixt unity and number there can be no medium; no more than betwixt existence and non-existence.
	From: David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739], I.IV.2)
	A reaction: Just to confirm that, as you would expect, the great empiricist has no time for 'subsistence', or shadows and holes having lower grade existece.