A Grammar of Logic and Intellectual Philosophy: On Didactic Principles ...A. H. Maltby, 1835 - 304 páginas |
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... MATTER AND SPACE ...... IV . OF DURATION .. V. OF IDENTITY .. What is meant by Identity in general Of Personal Identity ...... .... VI . OF THE TRAIN OF THOUGHT IN THE MIND .. VII . OF PREJUDICES .. Prejudices of the first Class , or ...
... MATTER AND SPACE ...... IV . OF DURATION .. V. OF IDENTITY .. What is meant by Identity in general Of Personal Identity ...... .... VI . OF THE TRAIN OF THOUGHT IN THE MIND .. VII . OF PREJUDICES .. Prejudices of the first Class , or ...
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... matter and motion , are the operations of various orders of intelligent beings , in the universe , of various rank and dignity . Others have been inclined to explain these phenomena by the agency of beings that are active without ...
... matter and motion , are the operations of various orders of intelligent beings , in the universe , of various rank and dignity . Others have been inclined to explain these phenomena by the agency of beings that are active without ...
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... matter , and these are not op- erations ; on the contrary , they imply its being a dead , inactive thing , which moves only as it is moved , and acts only as it is acted upon . 9. But the mind is , from its very nature , a living and ac ...
... matter , and these are not op- erations ; on the contrary , they imply its being a dead , inactive thing , which moves only as it is moved , and acts only as it is acted upon . 9. But the mind is , from its very nature , a living and ac ...
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... matter , in the process which constitutes sen- sation , and of which we can have no clearer knowledge than if we ourselves were not the subjects of that mysterious operation . 42. The word feeling hath two meanings . First , It ...
... matter , in the process which constitutes sen- sation , and of which we can have no clearer knowledge than if we ourselves were not the subjects of that mysterious operation . 42. The word feeling hath two meanings . First , It ...
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... matters of taste , to which the word sensation is less properly applied . Note . Other words that need explication , shall be explained as they occur . mmmmmmm CHAPTER II . PRINCIPLES TAKEN FOR GRANTED . 43. A GENERAL rule , when ...
... matters of taste , to which the word sensation is less properly applied . Note . Other words that need explication , shall be explained as they occur . mmmmmmm CHAPTER II . PRINCIPLES TAKEN FOR GRANTED . 43. A GENERAL rule , when ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
abstract acquired action affirmed analogy animals appears argument association association of ideas attention attributes axiom beautiful belief body called cause color combinations common complex comprehends conceive conception conclusion consciousness consequence constitution Corol degree demonstration disagree distinguished effect enthymemes equal Euclid Example exercise exertions existence expressed external faculty Fancy feeling figure genius genus gism give human mind hypochondriasis hypothetical syllogism IDOLA FORI IDOLA THEATRI Illus illustration Imagination impression individuals infer intellectual intermediate ideas intuitive knowledge judge judgment kind knowledge language major term mankind manner matter means Memory ment middle term minor term moral natural signs nature never objects observe operations opinions particular passions perceive perception person philosophical predicate prejudice premises principles Probable Evidence produce proper proposition qualities reasoning recollection relation sensation sense signifies simple sophism species suppose syllogism taste testimony things tion Train of Thought triangle truth understanding whole words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 94 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 41 - My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me...
Página 62 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast...
Página 35 - Some of them have moons, that serve to give them light in the absence of the sun, as our moon does to us. They are all, in their motions, subject to the same law of gravitation as the earth is. From all this similitude, it is not unreasonable to think that those planets may, like our earth, be the habitation of various orders of living creatures.
Página 116 - The association of ideas suggested them, and the power of conception placed each of them before him with all its beauties and imperfections. In every natural scene, if we destine it for any particular purpose, there are defects and redundancies, which art may sometimes, but cannot always, correct. But the power of imagination is unlimited. She can create and annihilate ; and dispose, at pleasure, her woods, her rocks, and her rivers. Milton, accordingly, would not copy his Eden from any one scene,...
Página 89 - Hope and fear alternate sway*d his breast; Like light and shade upon a waving field, Coursing each other, when the flying clouds Now hide, and now reveal, the sun.
Página 91 - My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword : No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May : No zephyr fondly...
Página 22 - Consciousness is a word used by philosophers, to signify that immediate knowledge which we have of our present thoughts and purposes, and, in general, of all the present operations of our minds. Whence we may observe, that consciousness is only of things present. To apply consciousness to things past, which sometimes is done in popular discourse, is to confound consciousness with memory; and all such confusion of words ought to be avoided in philosophical discourse.
Página 24 - When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having an idea of any thing, we mean no more by that expression but thinking of it. The vulgar allow, that this expression implies a mind that thinks ; an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an object about which we think. But, besides these three, the philosopher conceives that there is a fourth, to wit, the idea, which is the immediate object.
Página 163 - ... it soft. This is the notion which all mankind have of hardness and softness : they are neither sensations, nor like any sensation ; they were real qualities before they were perceived by touch, and continue to be so when they are not perceived : for if any man will affirm, that diamonds were not hard till they were handled, who would reason with him ? There is no doubt a sensation by which we perceive a body to be hard or soft.