The Philosophy of Human Knowledge: Or a Treatise on Language. A Course of Lectures, Delivered at the Utica LyceumG. & C. Carvill, 1828 - 197 páginas |
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... assertion is true ( when applied to an artificial sphere ) that no part of the circumference is a straight line ; yet the as- sertion is sophistical when the word sphere is applied to the earth ; because sphere has then a different ...
... assertion is true ( when applied to an artificial sphere ) that no part of the circumference is a straight line ; yet the as- sertion is sophistical when the word sphere is applied to the earth ; because sphere has then a different ...
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... assert , that while I look around our village , and perceive distant hills , and spacious streets , lofty buildings , and prosperous industry ; I truly see nothing , which is either spacious or distant , but a wonderful miniature , not ...
... assert , that while I look around our village , and perceive distant hills , and spacious streets , lofty buildings , and prosperous industry ; I truly see nothing , which is either spacious or distant , but a wonderful miniature , not ...
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... assertions , is to disbelieve the best de- monstrated conclusions . There exists a pruriency in every science , to thus irritate curiosity by an apparent contra- diction of our senses ; and to exalt phenomena by a novel application of ...
... assertions , is to disbelieve the best de- monstrated conclusions . There exists a pruriency in every science , to thus irritate curiosity by an apparent contra- diction of our senses ; and to exalt phenomena by a novel application of ...
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... asserted the sun's quiescence , the theory was deemed subversive of scrip- ture , which declares that Joshua protracted day by arrest- ing the sun . Better interpreters have succeeded in es- tablishing , that the prolongation of day ...
... asserted the sun's quiescence , the theory was deemed subversive of scrip- ture , which declares that Joshua protracted day by arrest- ing the sun . Better interpreters have succeeded in es- tablishing , that the prolongation of day ...
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... assert that no sense but seeing can in- form us of colours , you will be reminded of blind persons , who have discriminated colours by feeling . The fact may not be controvertible ; but the word colour , when applied by you , is the ...
... assert that no sense but seeing can in- form us of colours , you will be reminded of blind persons , who have discriminated colours by feeling . The fact may not be controvertible ; but the word colour , when applied by you , is the ...
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Página 42 - But another man, who never took the pains to observe the demonstration, hearing a mathematician, a man of credit, affirm the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones, assents to it, ie receives it for true.
Página 118 - For, if the triangle ABC be applied to DEF, so that the point A may be on D, and the straight line AB upon DE ; the point B shall coincide with the point E...
Página 187 - Our senses inform us of the color, weight, and consistency of bread, but neither sense nor reason can ever inform us of those qualities which fit it for the nourishment and support of the human body.
Página 118 - ... shall be greater than the base of the other. Let ABC, DEF be two triangles, which have the two sides AB, AC, equal to the two DE, DF, each to each, viz.
Página 119 - DF : but the point B coincides with the point E ; wherefore the base BC shall coincide with the base EF^ because the point B coinciding with E, and C with F, if the base BC does not coincide with the base EF, two straight lines would inclose a space, which is impossible».
Página 73 - To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate invariable antecedence, is power, — the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence, is a cause. — the immediate invariable consequent is the correlative effect.
Página 114 - One design prevails throughout the whole. And this uniformity leads the mind to acknowledge one author ; because the conception of different authors, without any distinction of attributes or operations, serves only to give perplexity to the imagination, without bestowing any satisfaction on the understanding.
Página 181 - A WHITE BEAR! Very well. Have I ever seen one? Might I ever have seen one? Am I ever to see one? Ought I ever to have seen one? Or can I ever see one? Would I had seen a white bear! (for how can I imagine it?) If I should see a white bear, what should I say?