The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively InvestigatedMichigan Publishing, 1860 - 516 sider |
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... means fitted to accomplish the ends to which they have been turned in metaphysical and theological speculation . I would as soon believe that there are no such agents as heat , che- mical affinity , and electricity in physical nature ...
... means fitted to accomplish the ends to which they have been turned in metaphysical and theological speculation . I would as soon believe that there are no such agents as heat , che- mical affinity , and electricity in physical nature ...
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... mean or method of finding laws which are prior to induction , otherwise induction could not find them . Experience is not supposed by me to furnish the ground of necessary truth ; all that it can do is to supply the facts which enable ...
... mean or method of finding laws which are prior to induction , otherwise induction could not find them . Experience is not supposed by me to furnish the ground of necessary truth ; all that it can do is to supply the facts which enable ...
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... means of settling those anxious questions which the mind is ever putting in re- gard to the soul , and the relation of the universe to God , and of a foundation on which the understanding can ultimately and confidently repose . Whatever ...
... means of settling those anxious questions which the mind is ever putting in re- gard to the soul , and the relation of the universe to God , and of a foundation on which the understanding can ultimately and confidently repose . Whatever ...
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... mean , what we have personally noticed . Even in noticing this , there must be faculties , with principles involved in them , at work . But a personal experience would of itself be valueless to man ; it would not and could not enable ...
... mean , what we have personally noticed . Even in noticing this , there must be faculties , with principles involved in them , at work . But a personal experience would of itself be valueless to man ; it would not and could not enable ...
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... mean while consciously before him the formula that it is impossible for the same body to be in two places at the same time . The individual conviction is in all men when the objects are pressed on their attention , the general maxim is ...
... mean while consciously before him the formula that it is impossible for the same body to be in two places at the same time . The individual conviction is in all men when the objects are pressed on their attention , the general maxim is ...
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abstract action admit affirm appear apprehension argument Aristotle belief bodily body called causation chemical affinity cognition colour conceive concrete consciousness constitution contemplate declares Descartes discover distinction Divine doctrine elements error evidence exercise existence experience external facts faculties faith feeling Fichte ginal Gnosiology Hegel human idea implies individual induction infinite infinity inquiry intellectual intelligence intuitive convictions intuitive knowledge intuitive principles involved J. S. Mill judgments Kant knowledge known laws of thought Leibnitz Locke logical look maxim mental metaphysicians metaphysics mind moral moral cognitions native nature necessary necessity neral never notion objects observation Ontology operation organism original pantheism particular perceive perception philosophy Plato present primitive priori proceed properties propositions qualities reality reason regard relation rience rules scepticism SECT self-evident sensation sense separate soul speak speculation spontaneous substance supposed theology things thought tion true truth universal
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Side 335 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Side 220 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Side 230 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Side 394 - When we have often seen and thought of two things together, and have never in any one instance either seen or thought of them separately, there is by the primary law of association an increasing difficulty, which may in the end become insuperable, of conceiving the two things apart.
Side 92 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Side 255 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Side 277 - The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range of our means of sure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases.
Side 251 - And that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre.
Side 194 - He spake, and it was done : He commanded, and it stood fast." "He said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Side 201 - We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.* 2.