The Nullity of Metaphysics as a Science Among the Sciences: Set Forth in Six Brief DialoguesLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863 - 104 sivua |
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abstract meaning acquired instincts act of reason adjective admit adverb affirm animal animal intelligence apprehension Aristotelian logic Aristotle ascer beginning berry brute creature brute intelligence calculus cognizor conclusion conscious constructed DIALOGUE difference distinct doctrine elements empyrean English evident evinces existence expression fact feel formal syllogism further ginal grammar ground grows higher human creature hypothesis ideas impulse to action inasmuch inevitable infant informal syllogism inquiry instance kind knowledge ledge liable Locke's logic matter meta metaphysics modern monomania moonshine namely nature necessity nerve-power nerves never new-born notion noun original instinct outward pain philosophy physical Plato premises present pretence proof proposition rational reach realities receive relation salt salt-box scene of things scholastic logic sensation sentient signifies special meaning speech spontaneous movement STAMFORD STREET stand suppose takes place teachers tence term mind truth uncon understanding understood relatively verb whole word yield
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Sivu 93 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and, were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Sivu 33 - Divinity, and proceeds together with him through the universe ; that the shining traces of her feet are conspicuous only in form ; and that in the dark windings of matter she left nothing but a most obscure and fleeting resemblance of herself. This delusive phantom, however, the man of modern science ardently explores, unconscious that he is running in profound darkness and infinite perplexity, and that he is hastening after an object which eludes all detection and mocks all pursuit.
Sivu 6 - It is the idea of a salt-box abstracted from the idea of a box, or of salt, or of a salt-box, or of a box of salt.
Sivu 33 - ... divinity, and proceeds together with him through the universe ; that the shining traces of her feet are conspicuous only in form; and that in the dark windings of matter she left nothing but a most obscure and fleeting resemblance of herself. This delusive...
Sivu 25 - Solon did this ; therefore he was a wise legislator;" there are some, perhaps, who would not perceive any fallacy in such arguments, especially if enveloped in a cloud of words ; and still more when the conclusion is true, or, which comes to the same point, if they are disposed to believe it ; and others might perceive indeed, but might be at a...
Sivu 6 - It is essential ; but if there should be a crack in the bottom of the box, the aptitude to spill salt would be termed an accidental property of that salt-box.
Sivu 22 - Premises, except of course when they are the conclusions of former arguments; but merely teach us to decide, not whether the Premises are fairly laid down, but whether the Conclusion follows fairly from the Premises or not.
Sivu 33 - The conceptions of the experimental philosopher, who expects to find truth in the labyrinths of matter, are not much more elevated than those of the vulgar ; for he is ignorant that truth is the most splendid of all things ; that she is the constant companion of the...
Sivu 6 - And this shows the difference between a salt idea and an idea of salt. Is an aptitude to hold salt an essential or an accidental property of a salt-box ? STU.
Sivu 51 - ... affected, have been affected by, the studies of the closet. A very rapid glance at the men who flourished in the time between the English and the French Revolution, and at those who have flourished since, may remind us perhaps better than an elaborate account of them and their writings could remind us, of the relations in which they stand to each other and to their respective centuries; of the great differences between those centuries; and of that which remains the same in all centuries. John...