Hume’s A Treatise Of Human Nat

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…passions or desires. However there is something in them that is driving them to do the problems they do. It is natural for them to feel satisfaction once the problem has been solved. This satisfaction is even considered a desire. The whole point of arduously trying to solve the formula is the desire for the satisfaction that is received at the end. Hence reason is always slave to the passion even in terms of mathematics.