Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumen2Eastburn, Kirk & Company, at the Literary Rooms, Corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, and Wells and Lilly, Boston, 1814 |
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... abstract and meta- physical idea expressed by the pronoun I or moi ? moi ? In an- swer to this question , I have only to observe , that when we set about the explanation of a phenomenon , we must pro ceed on the supposition that it is ...
... abstract and meta- physical idea expressed by the pronoun I or moi ? moi ? In an- swer to this question , I have only to observe , that when we set about the explanation of a phenomenon , we must pro ceed on the supposition that it is ...
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... abstract and metaphysical nature than the indirect demonstrations of geometry . It is a maxim , at the same time , to which the most sceptical writers have not been able to refuse their tes- timony . " Truth ( says Mr. Hume himself ) is ...
... abstract and metaphysical nature than the indirect demonstrations of geometry . It is a maxim , at the same time , to which the most sceptical writers have not been able to refuse their tes- timony . " Truth ( says Mr. Hume himself ) is ...
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... abstract principles . I have introduced the quotation here , merely on account of the proof which it has been supposed to af- ford , that the seeming diversities of human belief fall , in general , greatly short of the reality . On this ...
... abstract principles . I have introduced the quotation here , merely on account of the proof which it has been supposed to af- ford , that the seeming diversities of human belief fall , in general , greatly short of the reality . On this ...
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... abstract gene- ral ideas , on which great stress is laid by Dr. Reid , in his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man ; and which some late writers seem to have considered as not less con- clusive against the view of the question which ...
... abstract gene- ral ideas , on which great stress is laid by Dr. Reid , in his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man ; and which some late writers seem to have considered as not less con- clusive against the view of the question which ...
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... abstract general ideas , seems unwillingly or unwaringly to grant all that is necessary to support abstract and general conceptions . " A man ( says Berkeley ) may consider a figure merely as triangular , without attending to the ...
... abstract general ideas , seems unwillingly or unwaringly to grant all that is necessary to support abstract and general conceptions . " A man ( says Berkeley ) may consider a figure merely as triangular , without attending to the ...
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Página xi - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God Supreme, who made him chief Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent Eternal Father (for where is not he Present ?) thus to his Son audibly spake.
Página 436 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 449 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Página 280 - There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled.
Página 348 - And although the arguing from Experiments and Observations by Induction be no Demonstration of general Conclusions; yet it is the best way of arguing which the Nature of Things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the Induction is more general.
Página 376 - Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature?
Página 211 - He had another particularity, of which none of his friends ever ventured to ask an explanation. It appeared to me some superstitious habit, which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him.
Página 211 - I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness ; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having gone through it, break from his abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion'.
Página 320 - And even we, while we have been endeavouring to represent all philosophical systems as mere inventions of the imagination, to connect together the otherwise disjointed and discordant phenomena of Nature, have insensibly been drawn in, to make use of language expressing the connecting principles of this one, as if they were the real chains which Nature makes use of to bind together her several operations.
Página 101 - By this imposition of names, some of larger, some of stricter signification, we turn the reckoning of the consequences of things imagined in the mind, into a reckoning of the consequences of appellations.