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... supposition , that it is competent to appeal to the form- er , as affording a standard of right and wrong , not less than of speculative truth and false hood ; nor can there be a doubt that , when he speaks of truth as the object of ...
... supposition , that it is competent to appeal to the form- er , as affording a standard of right and wrong , not less than of speculative truth and false hood ; nor can there be a doubt that , when he speaks of truth as the object of ...
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... supposition that all geo- metrical truths are ultimately derived from Euclid's axioms , it pro- ceeds on an assumption totally unfounded in fact , and indeed so ob- viously false , that nothing but its antiquity can account for the fa ...
... supposition that all geo- metrical truths are ultimately derived from Euclid's axioms , it pro- ceeds on an assumption totally unfounded in fact , and indeed so ob- viously false , that nothing but its antiquity can account for the fa ...
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... ( supposing us to be created in the full posses- or mental sion of all the intellectual capacities which belong to human nature , ) if no impression were ever to be made on our external senses . The moment that , in consequence of such an ...
... ( supposing us to be created in the full posses- or mental sion of all the intellectual capacities which belong to human nature , ) if no impression were ever to be made on our external senses . The moment that , in consequence of such an ...
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... supposition , necessarily and unconsciously involved in the exercise of all their faculties . On a part of our constitution , which is obviously one of the last or primordial ele- ments at which it is possible to arrive in analyzing our ...
... supposition , necessarily and unconsciously involved in the exercise of all their faculties . On a part of our constitution , which is obviously one of the last or primordial ele- ments at which it is possible to arrive in analyzing our ...
Side 38
... supposition , from which a series of consequences may be deduced . Axioms If the account now given of these laws of belief be just , the great argument which has been commonly urged in support of their au- thority , and which manifestly ...
... supposition , from which a series of consequences may be deduced . Axioms If the account now given of these laws of belief be just , the great argument which has been commonly urged in support of their au- thority , and which manifestly ...
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Side 261 - Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
Side 93 - I shall only appeal to the thirty-seventh proposition of the first book, .' in which it is proved that triangles on the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal...
Side 205 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths.
Side 257 - ... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way.
Side 166 - There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled.
Side 128 - ... him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so...
Side 62 - I demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. [And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle.
Side 128 - I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness ; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having gone through it, break from his abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion'.
Side 128 - ... by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture : for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement...
Side 205 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients; and from motions to the forces producing them; and in general, from effects to their causes; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.