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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... wonder at their enunciation ; yet , so prone are we to dis- regard what is obvious , that the simple property which permits a word to name phenomena of different senses , has enabled theorists to convert the realities of life into a ...
... wonder at their enunciation ; yet , so prone are we to dis- regard what is obvious , that the simple property which permits a word to name phenomena of different senses , has enabled theorists to convert the realities of life into a ...
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... wonder that the study of metaphysics is difficult , and that the common sense of mankind has long ridiculed it . You can no more subtract from a particle or from motion its sen- sible qualities , and leave an entity , than you can ...
... wonder that the study of metaphysics is difficult , and that the common sense of mankind has long ridiculed it . You can no more subtract from a particle or from motion its sen- sible qualities , and leave an entity , than you can ...
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... wonder at the alleged impossibility , we are confident of its practical in- efficiency . But the difficulty proceeds from not knowing that the word similar has several meanings , and that it is used diversely in the above positions ...
... wonder at the alleged impossibility , we are confident of its practical in- efficiency . But the difficulty proceeds from not knowing that the word similar has several meanings , and that it is used diversely in the above positions ...
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... wonder at the smallness of the particles ; though it ought to teach him that the mystery is nothing but a latent sophistry of language . The word particle , when applied to light , means only the phenomenon to 68 THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN ...
... wonder at the smallness of the particles ; though it ought to teach him that the mystery is nothing but a latent sophistry of language . The word particle , when applied to light , means only the phenomenon to 68 THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN ...
Página 69
... wonder that the eye cannot feel the particles of light , is to wonder that they cannot feel a sight . We may as well wonder that we cannot taste sounds and hear smells . " Nothing , " says Professor Brown , " appears more uni- form than ...
... wonder that the eye cannot feel the particles of light , is to wonder that they cannot feel a sight . We may as well wonder that we cannot taste sounds and hear smells . " Nothing , " says Professor Brown , " appears more uni- form than ...
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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?