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163 'Look round the world'. Ibid. Pt 2, p. 15.

165 'But, allowing that we were: Ibid. Pt. 2, p. 19.

166 "I'he world plainly resembles. Ibid. Pt. 7, p. 44.

166 'If I rest my system: Ibid. Pt. 7, p. 47.

168 'In a word, Cleanthes'. Ibid. Pt. 7, p. 37.

169 'His power, we allow, is infinite: Ibid. Pt. 10, p. 63.

171 'The true conclusion is that'. Ibid. Pt. 11, p. 75.

172 'a nothing will serve'. Wittgenstein, Investigations, 304, p.102.

172 'If the whole of Natural'I'heology'. Hume, Dialogues, Pt. 12, p. 88.

178 "I'hiscontrarietyofevidence'.Hunme,FEnquiryConcerningHuman
Understanding, X, Pt. 1, p. 112.

178 'The very same principle'. Ibid. X, Pt. 1, p. 113.

178 `The plain consequence is'. Ibid. X, Pt. 1, PP. 115-16.

18o `The wise lend a very academic faith. Ibid. X, Pt. 2, P. 125.

181 'The passion of surprise and wonder. Ibid. X, Pt. 2, p.117.

181 us consider, that: Ibid. X, Pt. 2, p.121.

186 Pascal's wager is found in his Pensees, pp. 149-55.

190 'is but one superstition'. Mill, On Liberty, p. 41.

19o Clifford makes the comparison in `The Ethics of Belief, collected
in his Lectures and Essays. See p. 346•

190 'He who begins'. Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, Aphorism XV, p.107.

207 The notions introduced here were extensively studied by Paul
Grice. His papers are collected in Studies in the Way of Words.

212 `As to past Experience'. Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, IV, Pt. 2, PP. 33-4.

217 'It is impossible'. Ibid. IV, Pt. 2, p.38.

228 'That gravity should be innate'. This is from a letter from Newton
to Bentley. It is quoted in Kemp Smith, The Philosophy of David
Hume, p. 61.

228 `1 shall venture to affirm: Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding, IV, Pt. 1, p. 27.

229 `We fancy, that were we'. Ibid. IV, Pt. 1, p. 28.

229 'Hence we may discover the reason: Ibid. IV, Pt. 1, p. 30.

23o Kuhn's masterwork was The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
published in 1962.

234 `Now I say that whenever'. Galileo, TheAssayer, in Discoveries and
Opinions of Galileo, p. 274.

234 `For the proper purpose: Descartes, Meditation 6, p. 57.

24o Russell raises the charge of'favouritism' brietly in The Problems of
Philosophy, ch. 1, p. 10.

241 `original or primary qualities'. Locke, Essay, II. viii. 9 and 10, p.135.

242 'What I have said concerning colours'. Ibid. 11. vii. 14, p. 137.

244 `The idea of solidity we receive'. Ibid. 11. iv. 1, p. 122.

245 'If anyone asks me' Ibid. 11. iv. 6, p. 126.

246 `The idea of solidity is that' Hume, Treatise, I. iv. 4, p. 228.

247 `]A]fter the exclusion of colour. Ibid. I. iv. 4, p. 229.

248 ']T]o my mind. Faraday, `A Speculation touching Electrical
Conduction and the Nature of Matter'. I owe the quotation to
Langton, Kant urn Humility, p. 101.

253 `The scenes of the universe: Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding, VII, Pt. 1, p. 63.

254 `1 am not, therefore, in a position. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, A
368, p. 345.

255 `rhapsody' of perceptions. Ibid. A 137/B196, p. 193.

256 `Hitherto it has been assumed: Ibid. Preface to the 2nd edn., p. 22.

258 `Colours are not properties'. Ibid. A 29, p. 73.

259 `In our system'. Ibid. A 372, p. 347.

259 '[t]he required proof must. Ibid. B 275, p. 244.

260 'But (to pass by all ...) . Berkeley, Three Dialogues, Dialogue 1, para.
398, p. 35.

263 Moore's isolation argument occurs throughout Principia Ethica,
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265 The rule-following considerations are presented in Wittgenstein's
Philosophical Investigations, from (roughly: the discussion blends
into other material) § 137 to § 203.

273 Psychological egoism. It is difficult to find a pure psychological
egoist, but Thomas Hobbes is sometimes claimed to have been
one. The classic discussion is given by Joseph Butler in his Fifteen
Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel in 1726, especially Sermon
Xl. I discuss the whole issue further in my Ruling Passions, chs. 5
and 6.

281 `A man will be mortified: Hume, Treatise, III. iii. I, p. 589.

283 '[T ]here is the pull of the will and of love'. St Augustine, The Literal
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284 Moore's'open question' argument is from his Principia Ethica, pp.
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285 Plato extols glimpses of the normative and ideal order in terms of
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29o Kant's polemic against treating others as `mere means' is most
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