Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method, Objects, and Result of Ancient and Modern PhilosophyW. Pickering, 1833 - 222 páginas |
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... matter , we are informed by Aristotle , that Syllo- gism is a discourse or reasoning , in which , certain things being admitted or supposed , something different from these admitted principles or propositions , necessarily DESCENDING ...
... matter , we are informed by Aristotle , that Syllo- gism is a discourse or reasoning , in which , certain things being admitted or supposed , something different from these admitted principles or propositions , necessarily DESCENDING ...
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... matter , inasmuch as Number , Quantity , and Measure , both in Time and Space , are the peculiar subjects of that science . And many physical hypotheses are started , which cannot be examined without a most accurate admeasurement and an ...
... matter , inasmuch as Number , Quantity , and Measure , both in Time and Space , are the peculiar subjects of that science . And many physical hypotheses are started , which cannot be examined without a most accurate admeasurement and an ...
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... matter of fact or real existences . And all argu- ments concerning existence are founded on the relation of Cause and Effect . Our knowledge of that relation is derived en- tirely from Experience . And all Experi- mental conclusions ...
... matter of fact or real existences . And all argu- ments concerning existence are founded on the relation of Cause and Effect . Our knowledge of that relation is derived en- tirely from Experience . And all Experi- mental conclusions ...
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... matter of fact , or real existence , and is therefore founded upon experience . ' The first time a tri- angle , suppose an equilateral triangle , was presented to us , we had no concep- tion of its properties . By attentive con ...
... matter of fact , or real existence , and is therefore founded upon experience . ' The first time a tri- angle , suppose an equilateral triangle , was presented to us , we had no concep- tion of its properties . By attentive con ...
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... matters of fact , or real existences ; nor are they founded upon the relation of cause and effect , nor do they depend upon expe- rience . It is not true , then , that all pro- bable or moral reasoning depends upon experience . Again ...
... matters of fact , or real existences ; nor are they founded upon the relation of cause and effect , nor do they depend upon expe- rience . It is not true , then , that all pro- bable or moral reasoning depends upon experience . Again ...
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Página 140 - It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if Gravitation in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Página 61 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Página 121 - The ocean hath his chart, the stars their map, And Knowledge spreads them on her ample lap: But Rome is as the desert, where we steer Stumbling o'er recollections: now we clap Our hands, and cry, " Eureka ! it is clear — " When but some false mirage of ruin rises near.
Página 187 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
Página 86 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 121 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Página 26 - Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field ; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
Página 140 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of...
Página 13 - This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom.