| New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 páginas
...when he had argued himself into the conviction that mind as well as matter was a figment, and that belief is more -properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our nature — intellect with him being only a succession of impressions and ideas. "I am affrighted and... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1815 - 434 páginas
...but a manifest truth ; though I conecive it to be very improperly expressed, by saying, that belicf is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our nature. ESSAY VIII. » OP TASTE. CHAP. I. Of TASTE IN GENERAL THAT power of the mind by which we are... | |
| Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 páginas
...asserts, that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects, are derived from nothing but custom; and belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our nature. Finally, to hasten to the conclusion of this list of absurdities, he asserts, that the doctrine... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1822 - 322 páginas
...the last step in this progress, and crowned the system by what he calls his hypothesis ; to wit, that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our nature. Beyond this, 1 think no man can go in this track ; sensation or feeling is all, and what is... | |
| David Hume - 1826 - 508 páginas
...that all our reasonings concerning causes and effects, are derived from nothing but custom ; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures. I have here proved, that the very same principles, which make us form a decision upon any subject,... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 páginas
...the last step in this progress, and crowned the system by what he calls his hypothesis, to wit, that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our nature. Beyond this I think no man can go in this track ; sensation or feeling is all ; and what is... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 páginas
...also a cause of existence. That proposition, therefore, is not intuitively certain. At least, anyone who would assert it to be intuitively certain, must...remind my readers) makes a great figure in the works of Cud worth and of Kant. By the former it was avowedly borrowed from the philosophy of Plato. To the... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 páginas
...cause to every new production, neither from demonstration nor from intuition," he boldly coneludes, that " this opinion must necessarily arise from observation...the cogitative part of our natures." (Ibid. p. 321.) latter, it is not improbable, that it may have been suggested by this passage in Hume. Without disputing... | |
| Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 páginas
...the last step in this progress, and crowned the system by what he calls his hypothesis, to wit, That belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our nature. Beyond this I think no man can go in this track ; sensation or feeling is all, and what is... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 páginas
...indeed, is built upon it ; and it is of itself sufficient to prove what he calls his hypothesis, " that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures." It is very difficult to examine this account of belief with the same gravity with which it is proposed.... | |
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