First and Fundamental Truths: Being a Treatise on MetaphysicsC. Scribner's Sons, 1889 - 360 σελίδες |
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... conviction that it may be made as clear and satisfactory as Logic , the science of discursive truth , has been , since the days of Aristotle ( a ) . It shows us what we are entitled to assume and what we are not entitled to assume ...
... conviction that it may be made as clear and satisfactory as Logic , the science of discursive truth , has been , since the days of Aristotle ( a ) . It shows us what we are entitled to assume and what we are not entitled to assume ...
Σελίδα 8
... individual opera tions . It is in much the same way that we find out the laws of our original and native convictions . I boldly affirm that it is as impossible to determine these as 8 GENERAL VIEW OF PRIMITIVE PRINCIPLES .
... individual opera tions . It is in much the same way that we find out the laws of our original and native convictions . I boldly affirm that it is as impossible to determine these as 8 GENERAL VIEW OF PRIMITIVE PRINCIPLES .
Σελίδα 16
... conviction which we assume without evidence , and de- clare to be beyond the power of refutation ? I believe we can furnish decisive tests of fundamental truths . II . Self - evidence is the Primary Mark of intuitive truth . It is ...
... conviction which we assume without evidence , and de- clare to be beyond the power of refutation ? I believe we can furnish decisive tests of fundamental truths . II . Self - evidence is the Primary Mark of intuitive truth . It is ...
Σελίδα 17
... conviction regarding it . I am not inclined to fix on this as the original or essential characteristic . I shrink from main- taining that a proposition is true because it must be believed . A proposition is true as being true , and cer ...
... conviction regarding it . I am not inclined to fix on this as the original or essential characteristic . I shrink from main- taining that a proposition is true because it must be believed . A proposition is true as being true , and cer ...
Σελίδα 19
... convictions all relate to singulars , and so cannot be directly used in philosophic speculation . In order to their ... conviction . In order to the formation of the defini- tion or axiom , we must have objects or examples before us ...
... convictions all relate to singulars , and so cannot be directly used in philosophic speculation . In order to their ... conviction . In order to the formation of the defini- tion or axiom , we must have objects or examples before us ...
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Σελίδα 265 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Σελίδα 304 - And art thou nothing ? Such thou art, as when The woodman winding westward up the glen At wintry dawn, where o'er the sheep-track's maze The viewless snow-mist weaves a glist'ning haze, Sees full before him, gliding without tread, An image* with a glory round its head ; The enamoured rustic worships its fair hues, Nor knows he makes the shadow he pursues...
Σελίδα 182 - Knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas. —Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connection and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas.
Σελίδα 159 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Σελίδα 108 - When we do our utmost to conceive the existence of external bodies, we are all the while only contemplating our own ideas.
Σελίδα 99 - But yet, if we will consider it attentively, bodies, by our senses, do not afford us so clear and distinct an idea of active power, as we have from reflection on the operations of our minds.
Σελίδα 334 - For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not. in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed...
Σελίδα 169 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Σελίδα 331 - When we have often seen and thought of two things together, and have never in any one instance either seen or thought of them separately, there is by the primary law of association an increasing difficulty, which may in the end become insuperable, of conceiving the two things apart.
Σελίδα 148 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal NOW does always last.