Elements of Logic: Together with an Introductory View of Philosophy in General, and a Preliminary View of the Reason

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Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1856 - 484 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 179 - Jesus was the author and finisher of the faith; to which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can be taken...
Pàgina 30 - Now since nothing is ever present to the mind but perceptions, and since all ideas are deriv'd from something antecedently present to the mind; it follows, that 'tis impossible for us so much as to conceive or form an idea of any thing specifically different from ideas and impressions.
Pàgina 295 - Is it a fact that the object dewed is colder than the air? Certainly not, one would at first be inclined to say ; for what is to make it so? But .... the experiment is easy ; we have only to lay a thermometer in contact with the dewed substance, and hang one at a little distance above it, out of reach of its influence. The experiment has been, therefore, made ; the question has been asked, and the answer has been invariably in the 'affirmative. Whenever an object contracts dew, it is colder than...
Pàgina 30 - Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible, let us chase our imagination to the heavens or to the utmost limits of the universe: we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence but those perceptions which have appeared in that narrow compass.
Pàgina 387 - Various kinds of propositions are, according to the occasion, substituted for the one of which proof is required. Sometimes the Particular for the Universal ; sometimes a proposition with different Terms : and various are the contrivances employed to effect and to conceal this substitution, and to make the Conclusion which the Sophist has drawn, answer, practically, the same purpose as the one he ought to have established.
Pàgina 46 - ... the perception of the operations of our own mind within us as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without. And such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds...
Pàgina 297 - It is observed that dew is never copiously deposited in situations much screened from the open sky, and not at all in a cloudy night; but if the clouds withdraw even for a few minutes, and leave a clear opening, a deposition of dew presently begins, and goes on increasing. . . . Dew formed in clear intervals will often even evaporate again when the sky becomes thickly overcast.

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