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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... hence I inscribe the book to you , not to communicate its contents , but to record the social re- lationship which has always existed between us . Of the merits of the work neither of us is in a good position to judge - I from self ...
... hence I inscribe the book to you , not to communicate its contents , but to record the social re- lationship which has always existed between us . Of the merits of the work neither of us is in a good position to judge - I from self ...
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... hence the incessant criminations and recriminations that painfully disfigure all polemical discussions of men whom we wish to respect ; while probably every sectarian tenet is correct in its proper meaning , and every controvertist is ...
... hence the incessant criminations and recriminations that painfully disfigure all polemical discussions of men whom we wish to respect ; while probably every sectarian tenet is correct in its proper meaning , and every controvertist is ...
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... hence , that all such concep- tions , how diversified soever in verbal creed , possess an unverbal meaning in an organic impulse from which thẹ verbal conceptions all proceed , and to which they owe their ultimate cogency . In truth ...
... hence , that all such concep- tions , how diversified soever in verbal creed , possess an unverbal meaning in an organic impulse from which thẹ verbal conceptions all proceed , and to which they owe their ultimate cogency . In truth ...
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... hence I cannot tell you the difference in words . Our knowledge is at the end of its analysis when it is traced to the unver- bal things of which it is composed . The intellectual division , like the oxygen of chemistry , is unverbally ...
... hence I cannot tell you the difference in words . Our knowledge is at the end of its analysis when it is traced to the unver- bal things of which it is composed . The intellectual division , like the oxygen of chemistry , is unverbally ...
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... hence , though verbal thoughts and oral words are not iden- tities in name , the similarity between them is close . A deaf mute is as deficient of verbal thoughts as he is of oral words ; nor can an infant possess verbal thoughts till ...
... hence , though verbal thoughts and oral words are not iden- tities in name , the similarity between them is close . A deaf mute is as deficient of verbal thoughts as he is of oral words ; nor can an infant possess verbal thoughts till ...
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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.