A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Volumen2Houghton Mifflin, 1919 |
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... rational thinking was used only to explain dogma . But to use logic to clarify dogma , to employ the philosophy of Aristotle to supplement the Bible , to defend faith by argument , amounted in effect to supporting revelation by reason ...
... rational thinking was used only to explain dogma . But to use logic to clarify dogma , to employ the philosophy of Aristotle to supplement the Bible , to defend faith by argument , amounted in effect to supporting revelation by reason ...
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... rational principle and no actual case in nature ever exactly coincides with it . Take a simple example to show Galileo's thought . The law of the movements of the planets is mathematically described as an ellipse , but no planet has ...
... rational principle and no actual case in nature ever exactly coincides with it . Take a simple example to show Galileo's thought . The law of the movements of the planets is mathematically described as an ellipse , but no planet has ...
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... rational , innate truth which lay in the background of the teaching of the Cambridge School lingered in English thought in the eighteenth century in the teachings of Samuel Clarke ( 1675- 1729 ) , William Wollaston ( 1659–1724 ) , and ...
... rational , innate truth which lay in the background of the teaching of the Cambridge School lingered in English thought in the eighteenth century in the teachings of Samuel Clarke ( 1675- 1729 ) , William Wollaston ( 1659–1724 ) , and ...
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... rationally organized world , quite different from the world which it has organized . How , then , does a scientist proceed ? He starts with some phenomenon , which is the motion of some body and can be stated as a mathematical quantity ...
... rationally organized world , quite different from the world which it has organized . How , then , does a scientist proceed ? He starts with some phenomenon , which is the motion of some body and can be stated as a mathematical quantity ...
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... rational truth analogous to the mathematical - fundamental and convincing because simple and clear.1 Deduction - The Implications of Consciousness . The peculiar influence of the Augustinian doctrine then prevailing in France appears in ...
... rational truth analogous to the mathematical - fundamental and convincing because simple and clear.1 Deduction - The Implications of Consciousness . The peculiar influence of the Augustinian doctrine then prevailing in France appears in ...
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Página 188 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture ' of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 185 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Página 192 - The table I write on I say exists, that is, I see and feel it; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed, meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.
Página 281 - NOTHING can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except a Good Will.
Página 185 - ... But besides all that endless variety of ideas or objects of knowledge, there is likewise Something which knows or perceives them; and exercises divers operations, as willing, imagining, remembering, about them. This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself; by which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in...
Página 331 - Man, one harmonious soul of many a soul, Whose nature is its own divine control, Where all things flow to all, as rivers to the sea...
Página 169 - ... nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us, and depend on those primary qualities, viz.
Página 162 - If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach; to what things they are in any degree proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Página 280 - Act as if the maxim from which you act were to become through your will a universal law of nature.
Página 163 - We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise questions and perplex ourselves and others with disputes about things to which our understandings are not suited...