A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, Part First, Volum 1S. Potter&Company, 1822 - 561 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 100
Side ii
... whole ground , by consulting every author who had written upon it , both in ancient and modern times . I had advanced but a short dis- tance upon this extended plan , before I thought I perceived , that the Scottish metaphysicians had ...
... whole ground , by consulting every author who had written upon it , both in ancient and modern times . I had advanced but a short dis- tance upon this extended plan , before I thought I perceived , that the Scottish metaphysicians had ...
Side iv
... whole superstructure , must soon go to ruin . He contemplated the theories of all preceding phi- losophers , through the discoloured medium of Mr. Hume's sceptical conclusions ; and he might as well have expected to determine the ...
... whole superstructure , must soon go to ruin . He contemplated the theories of all preceding phi- losophers , through the discoloured medium of Mr. Hume's sceptical conclusions ; and he might as well have expected to determine the ...
Side vi
... whole system of Locke , which Dr. Reid has not endeavoured to unsettle ; and in fact , if his representation of the philosophy of Locke be true , the Treatise upon Human Understanding , should be laid upon the shelf of the student , as ...
... whole system of Locke , which Dr. Reid has not endeavoured to unsettle ; and in fact , if his representation of the philosophy of Locke be true , the Treatise upon Human Understanding , should be laid upon the shelf of the student , as ...
Side 11
... whole system of nature , that " wondrous frame of things , " ordained by the Great Contriver , with its magnificent apparatus of materials , its vast and curious machinery , its matchless combinations and contrivances , and the ...
... whole system of nature , that " wondrous frame of things , " ordained by the Great Contriver , with its magnificent apparatus of materials , its vast and curious machinery , its matchless combinations and contrivances , and the ...
Side 23
... whole compass of nature , when traced back to its source , will be found to have originated in the power of the Almighty . The corn is ground by the mill- stone as an agent ; the mill - stone is set in motion by a ma- chinery adjusted ...
... whole compass of nature , when traced back to its source , will be found to have originated in the power of the Almighty . The corn is ground by the mill- stone as an agent ; the mill - stone is set in motion by a ma- chinery adjusted ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, Part First, Volum 1 Frederick Beasley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1822 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
able absurdity action active power admit appear argument Aristotle asserts atheism believe Bishop Bishop Berkeley Bishop of Worcester brain Cartes cause and effect ceived chimæra Cicero colour conceive conception conclusion considered Democritus derived discovered distinct doctrine doubt efficient cause endeavoured evidence existence experience external objects facts faculties human mind Hume idea of power images imagination immediately impressions induction knowledge laws of nature light Locke Locke's lord Bacon maintains Mallebranche mankind matter maxims means memory metaphysical metaphysician motion natural philosophy never Newton observation occasion operations opinion optic nerves optick organs outward objects perceive perception phenomena philosophers Plato present principles produced professor proof propositions rays of light reason recollect reflection Reid retina rience says scepticism sensation senses sensible sensorium sight sleep soul substance suppose syllogism testimony theory things thought tion trace treatise true truth understanding vision whole
Populære avsnitt
Side 209 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Side 215 - It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world; yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question, may, if I mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction. For what are the forementioned objects but the...
Side 276 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive.
Side 486 - He thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall upon the book which he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle; but, lifting up his eyes, he apprehended to his extreme amazement that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory ; and was impressed as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect (for he was...
Side 153 - For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Side 286 - Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which the sphere. Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man to be made to see; quaere, Whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube?
Side 211 - The table I write on I say exists, that is I see and feel it, and if I were out of my study I should say it existed, meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.
Side 289 - ... from feeling, he would carefully observe that he might know them again; but having too many objects to learn at once, he forgot many of them, and, as he said, at first he learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day.
Side 203 - There can be nothing more certain than that the idea we receive from an external object is in our minds : this is intuitive knowledge.
Side 241 - I call idea; and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is. Thus a snowball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the power to produce those ideas in us as they are in the snowball I call qualities; and as they are sensations or perceptions in our understandings, I call them ideas...