Let us spend our lives in conceiving then.
Hume sees distinctly that if conscious experience be taken as containing only isolated states, no progress in explanation of cognition is possible, and that the only hope of further development is to be looked for in a radical change in our mode of conceiving experience.
The expressions "4" and "8/2" have the same denotation; but, they express different senses and different ways of conceiving the same number.
Q. What are the chances of conceiving twins more than once?
By parity of reasoning a blood ritual may have been adopted by peoples who practise the expulsion of evils, conceiving them either animistically or as powers; catharsis, in the sense of removal of uncleanness, is not necessarily primitive.
