The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Τόμος 3T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1854 |
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... says Burke , " does not branch out to infinity ! It is the nature of our particular scheme , and the single point of view in which we consider it , which ought to put a stop to our researches . " How forcibly does the remark apply to ...
... says Burke , " does not branch out to infinity ! It is the nature of our particular scheme , and the single point of view in which we consider it , which ought to put a stop to our researches . " How forcibly does the remark apply to ...
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... says Locke , are a logical chicaner , and a man of reason . " — Con- duct of the Understanding , 2 3 . 1 " No hypothesis , " says Dr. Campbell , " 10 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND .
... says Locke , are a logical chicaner , and a man of reason . " — Con- duct of the Understanding , 2 3 . 1 " No hypothesis , " says Dr. Campbell , " 10 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND .
Σελίδα 11
Dugald Stewart. " No hypothesis , " says Dr. Campbell , " hitherto invented , hath shewn that , by means of the discursive faculty , without the aid of any other mental power , we could ever obtain a notion of either the beautiful or the ...
Dugald Stewart. " No hypothesis , " says Dr. Campbell , " hitherto invented , hath shewn that , by means of the discursive faculty , without the aid of any other mental power , we could ever obtain a notion of either the beautiful or the ...
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... say , that , with less expense of thought , I could have rivalled the obscurity of Kant ; and that the invention of a new technical language , such as that which he has introduced , would have been an easier task , than the ...
... say , that , with less expense of thought , I could have rivalled the obscurity of Kant ; and that the invention of a new technical language , such as that which he has introduced , would have been an easier task , than the ...
Σελίδα 26
... says Dr. Campbell , " that of the following propositions may serve as an illustration : - ' One and 1 Book iv . chap . vii . 3 11 , ( 2 , 3. ) 6 four make five . ' Things equal to the 26 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND .
... says Dr. Campbell , " that of the following propositions may serve as an illustration : - ' One and 1 Book iv . chap . vii . 3 11 , ( 2 , 3. ) 6 four make five . ' Things equal to the 26 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND .
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Σελίδα 73 - For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find, that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other : and this I think we may call intuitive knowledge.
Σελίδα 349 - 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.
Σελίδα 82 - I demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. [And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle.
Σελίδα 125 - In like manner, when it is said, that " triangles on the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal...
Σελίδα 170 - 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.
Σελίδα 8 - There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done — a creature who, not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self -knowing, and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Σελίδα 146 - If a straight line meet two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Σελίδα 273 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths.
Σελίδα 256 - At inductio, quae ad inventionem et demonstrationem scientiarum et artium erit utilis, naturam separare debet, per rejectiones et exclusiones debitas; ac deinde post negativas tot quot sufficiunt, super affirmativas conclu.dere; quod adhuc factum non ,est, nec tentatum certe, nisi tantummodo a Platone, qui ad excutiendas definitiones et ideas, hac certe forma inductionis aliquatenus utitur.
Σελίδα 66 - There is a certain degree of sense," says this last author, in his essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, " which is necessary to our being subjects of law and government, capable of managing our own affairs, and answerable for our conduct to others. This is called common sense, because it is common to all men with whom we can transact business.