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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Pàgina 16
... thing in vain ; and truly , when we contemplate the world , no recess is unoccupied . We cannot , by penetrating the earth , discover a vacuity ; we cannot exalt our vision be- yond created objects ; we cannot fathom the fulness of the ...
... thing in vain ; and truly , when we contemplate the world , no recess is unoccupied . We cannot , by penetrating the earth , discover a vacuity ; we cannot exalt our vision be- yond created objects ; we cannot fathom the fulness of the ...
Pàgina 20
... thing he saw touched his eyes . " This is supposed to manifest the invisibility of distance . But what did the young man mean ? Seeing can inform me when my hand touches the table , and feeling also can inform me . The word names then a ...
... thing he saw touched his eyes . " This is supposed to manifest the invisibility of distance . But what did the young man mean ? Seeing can inform me when my hand touches the table , and feeling also can inform me . The word names then a ...
Pàgina 21
... thing which he touched was seen by his fingers . Some- thing similar did occur : a man who had been deaf from his birth , acquired hearing by a surgical operation . His first expressions intimated that his ears saw the sound which they ...
... thing which he touched was seen by his fingers . Some- thing similar did occur : a man who had been deaf from his birth , acquired hearing by a surgical operation . His first expressions intimated that his ears saw the sound which they ...
Pàgina 25
... thing which is not a taste , the position is evident . It ex- emplifies , however , the sophistry to which we are liable , when we designate sensible information by other names than sights , sounds , tastes , feels , and smells . To an ...
... thing which is not a taste , the position is evident . It ex- emplifies , however , the sophistry to which we are liable , when we designate sensible information by other names than sights , sounds , tastes , feels , and smells . To an ...
Pàgina 30
... thing can be more easily accomplished . Fire , when re- stricted to the phenomena of feeling , is usually a name of the feel heat , the feel burn , the feels solidity , external , and some others : hence heat is in the fire - that is ...
... thing can be more easily accomplished . Fire , when re- stricted to the phenomena of feeling , is usually a name of the feel heat , the feel burn , the feels solidity , external , and some others : hence heat is in the fire - that is ...
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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?