...only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will (Locke). ... It is universally allowed that nothing exists without...chance, when strictly examined, is a mere negative word, but it is pretended that some causes are necessary, some not necessary. Here then is the advantage...

...definition we may give of liberty, we should be careful to observe two requisite circumstances ; first, that it be consistent with plain matter of fact ;...negative word, and means not any real power which has anywhere a being in nature, But it is pretended that some causes are necessary, some not necessary....

...in the world ";' an extremely careless way of speaking, which he corrects later by the observation that "Chance, when strictly examined, is a mere negative word, and means not any real power which has anywhere a being in Nature."2 This brings us to the true statement of the case, which may be worded...

...definition we may give of liberty, we should be careful to observe two requisite circumstances ; first, that it be consistent with plain matter of fact ;...negative word, and means not any real power which has anywhere a being in nature. But it is pretended that some ca.uses are necessary, some not necessary....

...acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will (Locke). ... It is universally alldwed that nothing exists without a cause of its existence,...chance, when strictly examined, is a mere negative word, but it is pretended that some causes are necessary, some not necessary. Here then is the advantage...

...definition we may give of liberty, we should be careful to observe two requisite circumstances ; first, that it be consistent with plain matter of fact ;...without a cause of its existence, and that chance, when strictlv examined, is a mere negative word, and means not any real power which has anywhere a being...

...Concerning Human Understanding, he explicitly employed De Moivre's epithet, that chance is a mere word: It is universally allowed that nothing exists without...negative word, and means not any real power which has anywhere a being in nature.10 De Moivre's atheistical writers, and Hume's vulgar people, took chance...

...it with dogmatism. For example, in his discussion of liberty in section VIII of the Enquiry we find: "It is universally allowed that nothing exists without...negative word, and means not any real power which has anywhere a being in nature."25 Through appealing to this principle, Hume argues that the science of...

...definition we may give of liberty, we should be careful to observe two requisite circumstances; first, that it be consistent with plain matter of fact; secondly,...allowed, that nothing exists without a cause of its exmind, is not, properly speaking, a quality in the agent, but in any thinking or intelligent being,...

...arguing against philosophical pretensions: It is universally allowed that nothing exists without a cause, and that chance, when strictly examined, is a mere...negative word, and means not any real power which has anywhere a being in nature. But it is pretended that some causes are necessary, some not necessary....