PHL100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Section 7 pg. 101-115: Billiard Ball, Natural Philosophy, Solidity
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Notes o(cid:374) da(cid:448)id hu(cid:373)e"s an enquiry into human understanding section 7. Advantage of math above moral consists in that the ideas of the math, being sensible, are always clear and determinate and the same terms are still expressive without ambiguity or variation. An oval is not mistaken for a circle or ellipsis. The isosceles and scalene are distinguished by boundaries more exact than vice and virtue, right and wrong. If any term be defined in geometry, the mind readily substitutes the definition for the term defined: or maybe even when no definition is presents, the object itself presented to the senses, and so it is clearly apprehended. But the finer sentiments of the mind, the operations of understanding, the agitations of passions, really are distinct in themselves, easily escape us when surveyed by reflection. Nor is it in our power to recall the original object, as often we have occasion to contemplate it.
