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... Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another , " can , by multiplied application , do more than establish the equality of some series of magnitudes . But the act of thought which every syllogism professes to re- present ...
... Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another , " can , by multiplied application , do more than establish the equality of some series of magnitudes . But the act of thought which every syllogism professes to re- present ...
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Página 201 - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Página 28 - ANY two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side.
Página 24 - IF a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles ; and the three interior angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles.
Página 349 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe.
Página 62 - All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premise are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.
Página 331 - By the term impression, then, I mean all our more lively perceptions, when we hear, or see, or feel, or love, or hate, or desire, or will. And impressions are distinguished from ideas, which are the less lively perceptions, of which we are conscious, when we reflect on any of those sensations or movements above mentioned.
Página 323 - I can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can consider the hand, the eye, the nose, each by itself abstracted or separated from the rest of the body. But then, whatever hand or eye I imagine, it must have some particular shape and colour.
Página 324 - I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described. And it is equally impossible for me to form the abstract idea of motion distinct from the body moving...
Página 23 - The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to each other; and if the equal sides be produced, the angles on the other side of the base shall be equal.
Página 406 - Accordingly, no geometrical proposition, as, for instance, that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side, can ever be derived from the general conceptions of line and triangle, but only from perception.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Works, Volumen3 Works, Herbert Spencer |
| Autor | Herbert Spencer |
| Publicado | 1881 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 9 Feb. 2006 |
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