Le positivisme anglais: étude sur Stuart MillG. Baillière, 1864 - 157 páginas |
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abstraits anglaise antécédent Aristote attribute axiomes body c'est-à-dire cause champ d'un esprit chose circumstances complexes composé conclusion Condillac connaissance conséquent corps courci définir démêler dewed différents distinct éléments générateurs enclore un espace expérience facts feelings froid fructueuse generous groupe heat Hegel idées induction inference isole l'abstraction l'air l'autre l'axiome l'esprit l'expérience l'induction laws logiciens lois manières d'être mateur Max Müller means ment méthode méthode de concordance méthode des résidus mind mortalité du prince mouvement name name only nature neral notion objet opérations pables particulars peuvent enclore phénomènes philosophe Pierre et compagnie plantu ples portion position pouvons première preuve primitives prince Albert proposition générale propositions qui concernent propriétés qu'un qualité raison rence rosée same science scolastiques seconde sensations sera seule sition states of consciousness Stuart Mill substance surface syllogisme température tence texture théorie thing tion true unfolds verbales Voilà voulons dire simplement word Worthy of honour
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Página 52 - Supposing, therefore, such to be the case, we can transport ourselves thither in imagination, and can frame a mental image of the appearance which one or both of the lines must present at that point, which we may rely on as being precisely similar to the reality.
Página 57 - We must first observe, that there is a principle implied in the very statement of what Induction is ; an assumption with regard to the course of nature and the order of the universe ; namely, that there are such things in nature as parallel cases ; that what happens once, will, under a sufficient degree of similarity of circumstances, happen again, and not only again, but as often as the same circumstances recur.
Página 59 - Experience must be consulted in order to learn from it under what circumstances arguments from it will be valid. We have no ulterior test to which we subject experience in general; but we make experience its own test.
Página 80 - ... and this last is, therefore, an induction (from fresh instances) simply corroborative of a former induction. It thus appears that the instances in which much dew is deposited, which are very various, agree in this, and, so far as we are able to observe, in this only, that they either radiate heat rapidly or conduct it slowly : qualities between which there is no other circumstance of agreement than that, by virtue of either, the body tends to lose heat from the surface more rapidly than it can...
Página 104 - In distant parts of the stellar regions, where the phenomena may be entirely unlike those with which we are acquainted, it would be folly to affirm confidently that this general law prevails, any more than those special ones which we have found to hold universally on our own planet.
Página 63 - The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.
Página 76 - The conclusion obtained is, that cceteris paribus the deposition of dew is in some proportion to the power which the body possesses of resisting the passage of heat ; and that this, therefore (or something connected with this), must be at least one of the causes which assist in producing the deposition of dew on the surface. " But if we expose rough surfaces instead of polished, wo sometimes find this law interfered with.
Página 146 - ... supprimée, un ordre tel que la première appelât la seconde et la seconde la troisième; s'il établissait ainsi que la quantité pure est le commencement nécessaire de la nature, et que la pensée est le terme extrême auquel la nature est tout entière suspendue...
Página 104 - The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received, not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of 1 Logic, III.
Página 103 - I am convinced that any one accustomed to abstraction and analysis, who will fairly exert his faculties for the purpose, will, when his imagination has once learnt to entertain the notion, find no difficulty in conceiving that in some one for instance of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides the universe, events may succeed one another at random, without any fixed law ; nor can anything in our experience, or in our mental nature, constitute a sufficient, or indeed any, reason...