The Philosophy of Human Knowledge: Or a Treatise on Language. A Course of Lectures, Delivered at the Utica LyceumG. & C. Carvill, 1828 - 197 pàgines |
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... admit the conclusion . › LECTURE VII .................. .121 Of the necessities of language . — When we say the ... admitting the conclusions is merely verbal , and therefore fallacious . - This error enters deeply into nearly all our ...
... admit the conclusion . › LECTURE VII .................. .121 Of the necessities of language . — When we say the ... admitting the conclusions is merely verbal , and therefore fallacious . - This error enters deeply into nearly all our ...
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... admit the conclusion . LECTURE VII ............... . Of the necessities of language . - When we say the of an orange is greater than a part , the necessit mitting the conclusion is founded on our exp LECTURE VIII ......... . The ...
... admit the conclusion . LECTURE VII ............... . Of the necessities of language . - When we say the of an orange is greater than a part , the necessit mitting the conclusion is founded on our exp LECTURE VIII ......... . The ...
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... admit . You perceive , then , that the Philosophy of Human Knowledge deserves attention . There has always exist- ed an indefinite impression that such a science is attaina- ble . It has been to metaphysics , what alchymy has to ...
... admit . You perceive , then , that the Philosophy of Human Knowledge deserves attention . There has always exist- ed an indefinite impression that such a science is attaina- ble . It has been to metaphysics , what alchymy has to ...
Pàgina 37
... Admit then that weight is the name of a feel , and ob- serve how speciously I can employ the word after I divest it of all signification : thus , " many objects are too small to be seen with the unassisted eye ; and some the most ...
... Admit then that weight is the name of a feel , and ob- serve how speciously I can employ the word after I divest it of all signification : thus , " many objects are too small to be seen with the unassisted eye ; and some the most ...
Pàgina 59
... admit that baize can be spread over the surface of a table - tiis affords an elucidation of his error . The spreading referred to by Mr. Stewart is the feel spreading . It is where we can feel the body that is covered , and the body ...
... admit that baize can be spread over the surface of a table - tiis affords an elucidation of his error . The spreading referred to by Mr. Stewart is the feel spreading . It is where we can feel the body that is covered , and the body ...
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Pàgina 42 - But another man, who never took the pains to observe the demonstration, hearing a mathematician, a man of credit, affirm the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones, assents to it, ie receives it for true.
Pàgina 118 - For, if the triangle ABC be applied to DEF, so that the point A may be on D, and the straight line AB upon DE ; the point B shall coincide with the point E...
Pàgina 187 - Our senses inform us of the color, weight, and consistency of bread, but neither sense nor reason can ever inform us of those qualities which fit it for the nourishment and support of the human body.
Pàgina 118 - ... shall be greater than the base of the other. Let ABC, DEF be two triangles, which have the two sides AB, AC, equal to the two DE, DF, each to each, viz.
Pàgina 119 - DF : but the point B coincides with the point E ; wherefore the base BC shall coincide with the base EF^ because the point B coinciding with E, and C with F, if the base BC does not coincide with the base EF, two straight lines would inclose a space, which is impossible».
Pàgina 73 - To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate invariable antecedence, is power, — the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence, is a cause. — the immediate invariable consequent is the correlative effect.
Pàgina 114 - One design prevails throughout the whole. And this uniformity leads the mind to acknowledge one author ; because the conception of different authors, without any distinction of attributes or operations, serves only to give perplexity to the imagination, without bestowing any satisfaction on the understanding.
Pàgina 181 - A WHITE BEAR! Very well. Have I ever seen one? Might I ever have seen one? Am I ever to see one? Ought I ever to have seen one? Or can I ever see one? Would I had seen a white bear! (for how can I imagine it?) If I should see a white bear, what should I say?