Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform: Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review; Cor., Vindicated, Enl., in Notes and AppendicesBlackwood, 1866 - 846 páginas |
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... mathematician has yet been found to essay this demonstration , so necessary for his university , so honourable to his science , has always appeared to us a virtual admission , that the thesis was incapable of defence . A treatise ...
... mathematician has yet been found to essay this demonstration , so necessary for his university , so honourable to his science , has always appeared to us a virtual admission , that the thesis was incapable of defence . A treatise ...
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... mathematicians , indeed , admit all that has been urged against their science , as a principal discipline of the mind ; and only contend that it ought not to be extruded from all place in a scheme of liberal education . With these ...
... mathematicians , indeed , admit all that has been urged against their science , as a principal discipline of the mind ; and only contend that it ought not to be extruded from all place in a scheme of liberal education . With these ...
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... mathematician would hold such an opinion with regard to geometrical truths , although it has been entertained by metaphysicians of no inconsiderable acuteness , as Hume . We might ask such persons how Experience can show , not only that ...
... mathematician would hold such an opinion with regard to geometrical truths , although it has been entertained by metaphysicians of no inconsiderable acuteness , as Hume . We might ask such persons how Experience can show , not only that ...
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... mathematician must look for their vindication and establishment . But , in the fourth place , if Mr Whewell " can hardly suppose that any mathematician would hold the opinion that mathematical truths are learned from experience , " we ...
... mathematician must look for their vindication and establishment . But , in the fourth place , if Mr Whewell " can hardly suppose that any mathematician would hold the opinion that mathematical truths are learned from experience , " we ...
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... mathematicians , it only shows that Mr Whewell has himself been recently dipping into the Kantian philosophy ; of which he here adduces a famous principle and one of the most ordinary illustra- tions . The principle was indeed enounced ...
... mathematicians , it only shows that Mr Whewell has himself been recently dipping into the Kantian philosophy ; of which he here adduces a famous principle and one of the most ordinary illustra- tions . The principle was indeed enounced ...
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Página 308 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Página 14 - As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.