The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively InvestigatedMichigan Publishing, 1860 - 516 sider |
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Side 21
... seems to me to be our natural , intuitive , and necessary conviction , and he who departs from it is landed in thickening difficulties on every side , and in particular cannot possibly defend himself from the assaults of scepticism ...
... seems to me to be our natural , intuitive , and necessary conviction , and he who departs from it is landed in thickening difficulties on every side , and in particular cannot possibly defend himself from the assaults of scepticism ...
Side 30
... seem to be of the nature of perceptions , that is , something is presented to us , and the cognition , belief , or ... seems to bring out the original quality of the native convictions of the mind . SECT . III . INTUITIVE CONVICTIONS ...
... seem to be of the nature of perceptions , that is , something is presented to us , and the cognition , belief , or ... seems to bring out the original quality of the native convictions of the mind . SECT . III . INTUITIVE CONVICTIONS ...
Side 35
... seem to flow from the same principle , we generalize them ; and , if we do so accurately , we obtain the exact nature of the prin- ciple , and can embody it in a verbal expression . The principle thus discovered and enunciated is pro ...
... seem to flow from the same principle , we generalize them ; and , if we do so accurately , we obtain the exact nature of the prin- ciple , and can embody it in a verbal expression . The principle thus discovered and enunciated is pro ...
Side 48
... seems very certain that there have been volcanoes in the moon , but men did not give their credence till traces of eruptive formations were discovered by the telescope . But there are propositions which do not require proof , even as ...
... seems very certain that there have been volcanoes in the moon , but men did not give their credence till traces of eruptive formations were discovered by the telescope . But there are propositions which do not require proof , even as ...
Side 60
... seems a self - evident truth and any other supposed truth , we are to examine the evidence which we have for both . It is thus that the mathematician acts when his demonstrations seem to be contradictory . He does not allow himself to ...
... seems a self - evident truth and any other supposed truth , we are to examine the evidence which we have for both . It is thus that the mathematician acts when his demonstrations seem to be contradictory . He does not allow himself to ...
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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.