The Meaning of Words: Analysed Into Words and Unverbal Things, and Unverbal Things Classified Into Intellections, Sensations, and EmotionsD. Appleton and Company, 1862 - 250 páginas |
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... fallacies are concealed in the structure of language : it identifies what unverbally are diverse , assimilates what unverbally are heterogeneous , makes a unit of what unverbally are multifarious , and transmutes into each other what ...
... fallacies are concealed in the structure of language : it identifies what unverbally are diverse , assimilates what unverbally are heterogeneous , makes a unit of what unverbally are multifarious , and transmutes into each other what ...
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... FALLACIOUS VERBAL HOMOGENEITY . 1. We possess but one set of words with which to speak of three incon- vertibly different sets of unverbal things . 2. The verbal sameness must be discriminated from the unverbal diver- sity , or much ...
... FALLACIOUS VERBAL HOMOGENEITY . 1. We possess but one set of words with which to speak of three incon- vertibly different sets of unverbal things . 2. The verbal sameness must be discriminated from the unverbal diver- sity , or much ...
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... fallacious , the fallacy may be readily and speedily detected . Words have , heretofore , been de- fined as signs of ideas , and the meaning of words has been sought in the ideas of which the words are said to be the signs ; but ideas ...
... fallacious , the fallacy may be readily and speedily detected . Words have , heretofore , been de- fined as signs of ideas , and the meaning of words has been sought in the ideas of which the words are said to be the signs ; but ideas ...
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... fallacious homo- geneity which our knowledge assumes continually when contemplated through the medium of words ; and we shall find , as we proceed in our discussions , that to discriminate the generic differences that pertain to ...
... fallacious homo- geneity which our knowledge assumes continually when contemplated through the medium of words ; and we shall find , as we proceed in our discussions , that to discriminate the generic differences that pertain to ...
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... fallacious as a child's who shall not dis- criminate the generic difference between the events of the " Arabian Nights , " and the events of history — a difference that consists in only that one set of events are intellectual ...
... fallacious as a child's who shall not dis- criminate the generic difference between the events of the " Arabian Nights , " and the events of history — a difference that consists in only that one set of events are intellectual ...
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Página 202 - And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Página 255 - The consideration then of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Página 132 - 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.
Página 173 - ... directions, and prevail equally during the time of high and low water. But the most remarkable circumstance is, the uniformity of the time of high and low water. During the year, whatever be the age or situation of the moon, the water is lowest at six in the morning, and the same hour in the evening, and highest at noon and midnight. This is so well established, that the time of night is marked by the ebbing and flowing of the tide ; and, in all the islands, the term for high water and for midnight...
Página 9 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Página 243 - ... earth. As to what weight and attraction are, we have nothing to do with that, for it is not a matter of knowledge at all. Theologians and metaphysicians may imagine and refine about such questions; but positive philosophy rejects them. When any attempt has been made to explain them, it has ended only in saying that attraction is universal weight, and that weight is terrestrial attraction ; that is, that the two orders of phenomena are identical; which is the point from which the question set...
Página 173 - Sea Islands, the tide is one of the most singular, and presents as great an exception to the theory of Sir Isaac Newton as is to be met with in any part of the world. The rising and falling of the waters of the ocean appear, if influenced at all, to be so in a very small degree only, by the moon. The height to which the water rises, varies but a few inches during the whole year, and at no time is it elevated more than a foot, or a foot and a half.