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All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... in every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.

-David Hume

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All Knowledge Resolves Itself Into Probability. ...

David Hume

All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... in every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.

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In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. this form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.

Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (the object had a position to begin with.) next - to change the position of the object. - rauschenberg's early sculptures - a board with some rocks on it. the rocks can be anywhere on the board. - cage's japanese rock garden - the rocks can be anywhere (within the garden).

Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. you ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize it, and ought to take it out, you ought to practice it, you ought to apply it. and most of all, you ought to rejoice in it because you have just heard how not to be wretched, miserable you any more but to be a brand new, and forever brand new man or woman.

Apart from thoughts, there is no independent entity called the world. in deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no world. in the states of waking and dream, there are thoughts, and there is a world also. just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out of itself and again resolves it into itself.

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. probability begins and ends with probability.

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