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SOMNIUM BOSWELLI
Author(s) -
SCARRE GEOFFREY
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2265.1989.tb00112.x
Subject(s) - curiosity , philosophy , state (computer science) , psychoanalysis , psychology , social psychology , computer science , algorithm
I had a strong curiosity to be satisfied if he persisted in disbeleiving a future state even when he had death before his eyes. I was persuaded from what he now said, and from his manner of saying it, that he did persist. … and he added that it was a most unreasonable fancy that he should exist for ever. …‘Well’, said I, 'Mr Hume, I hope to triumph over you when I meet you in a future state; and remember you are not to pretend that you was joking with all this Infidelity. — from James Boswell's last interview with David Hume 1