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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... definitions , be- cause speculations are often verbal deductions from names . The error of this process is , that words have as many significations as they have applications to dif- ferent phenomena : consequently , though the assertion ...
... definitions , be- cause speculations are often verbal deductions from names . The error of this process is , that words have as many significations as they have applications to dif- ferent phenomena : consequently , though the assertion ...
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... definition . After philosophers determine that the phenomena of feeling alone constitute every external object , and that colour is no part thereof , they inquire where colour ex- ists ? Before we reply , it is well to Lec . 1. ] 27 OR ...
... definition . After philosophers determine that the phenomena of feeling alone constitute every external object , and that colour is no part thereof , they inquire where colour ex- ists ? Before we reply , it is well to Lec . 1. ] 27 OR ...
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... definition . An inattention to the principle of language that I have endeavoured to designate , has produced more errors than many volumes can comprehend ; yet I will intrude upon you an enumeration of only one additional class . This ...
... definition . An inattention to the principle of language that I have endeavoured to designate , has produced more errors than many volumes can comprehend ; yet I will intrude upon you an enumeration of only one additional class . This ...
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... definition to whose test every advocate would sub- ject his favourite phenomenon ; -not to decide whether it shall be named united , but whether it be the existence , that the word inherently typifies . Admit they shall adjudge that the ...
... definition to whose test every advocate would sub- ject his favourite phenomenon ; -not to decide whether it shall be named united , but whether it be the existence , that the word inherently typifies . Admit they shall adjudge that the ...
Pàgina 73
... define a cause , we shall be deceived if we think it means any thing but the pheno- mena to which it then refers . The phrase may seem to simplify causation , because I may attach to the phrase some meaning that differs from the ...
... define a cause , we shall be deceived if we think it means any thing but the pheno- mena to which it then refers . The phrase may seem to simplify causation , because I may attach to the phrase some meaning that differs from the ...
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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?