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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... produce in philosophy revolutions which no man can foresee . ut on objects produced by art . LECT The animals CONTENTS .
... produce in philosophy revolutions which no man can foresee . ut on objects produced by art . LECT The animals CONTENTS .
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... produced by art . LECT The animals which stitute his food are unknown to nature , while trees , s , and herbs are the trophies of his labour . His vir- language , actions , sentiments , and desires are near- actitious . Stupendous in ...
... produced by art . LECT The animals which stitute his food are unknown to nature , while trees , s , and herbs are the trophies of his labour . His vir- language , actions , sentiments , and desires are near- actitious . Stupendous in ...
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... produced from the Lyceum a request with which I shall endeavour to comply , by moulding the Treatise into short and occasional lectures . Man exists in a world of his own creation . He cannot step , but on ground transformed by culture ...
... produced from the Lyceum a request with which I shall endeavour to comply , by moulding the Treatise into short and occasional lectures . Man exists in a world of his own creation . He cannot step , but on ground transformed by culture ...
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... produced by art . The animals which constitute his food are unknown to nature , while trees , fruits , and herbs are the trophies of his labour . His vir- tues , language , actions , sentiments , and desires are near- ly all factitious ...
... produced by art . The animals which constitute his food are unknown to nature , while trees , fruits , and herbs are the trophies of his labour . His vir- tues , language , actions , sentiments , and desires are near- ly all factitious ...
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... produced by rays , which rebound from visible objects , to the optic nerve , —that sound is conveyed by appulser of air , which strike the tympanum ; and that smells are dif- fused by small corpuscles , which are wafted to the olfac ...
... produced by rays , which rebound from visible objects , to the optic nerve , —that sound is conveyed by appulser of air , which strike the tympanum ; and that smells are dif- fused by small corpuscles , which are wafted to the olfac ...
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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?