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53791	Hume, David	Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author			.txt	text/plain	130732	4369	56	Thus, if instead of saying, _that in war the weaker have always recourse to negociation_, we should say, _that they have always recourse to conquest_, the custom which we have acquired of attributing certain relations to ideas, still follows the words, and makes us immediately perceive the absurdity of that proposition; in the same manner as one particular idea may serve us in reasoning concerning other ideas, however different from it in several circumstances. If ideas be particular in their nature, and at the same time finite in their number, 'tis only by custom they can become general in their representation, and contain an infinite number of other ideas under them.	cache/53791.txt	txt/53791.txt