A Biographical History of Philosophy, Volumen3Charles Knight & Company, 1851 |
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Página 48
... experience , and these mischiefs are at length increased by logic for the ostentation of disputes . V. The natural human reasoning we , for the sake of clearness , call the anticipation of nature , as being a rash and hasty thing ; and ...
... experience , and these mischiefs are at length increased by logic for the ostentation of disputes . V. The natural human reasoning we , for the sake of clearness , call the anticipation of nature , as being a rash and hasty thing ; and ...
Página 53
... experience round , and leads her captive to his own opinions . · · · Another great reason of the slow progress of the sciences is this that it is impossible to proceed well in a course where the end is not rightly fixed and de- fined ...
... experience round , and leads her captive to his own opinions . · · · Another great reason of the slow progress of the sciences is this that it is impossible to proceed well in a course where the end is not rightly fixed and de- fined ...
Página 54
... experience ; but that all things should be left either to the darkness of tradition , the giddy agitation and whirlwind of argument , or else to the uncertain waves of acci- dent , or a vague and uninformed experience . Let any one ...
... experience ; but that all things should be left either to the darkness of tradition , the giddy agitation and whirlwind of argument , or else to the uncertain waves of acci- dent , or a vague and uninformed experience . Let any one ...
Página 62
... experience and a few obvious parti- culars , are generally applied in a corresponding manner ; no wonder they lead not to new particu- lars . " Again : " Syllogism consists of propo- sitions , propositions of words , and words are the ...
... experience and a few obvious parti- culars , are generally applied in a corresponding manner ; no wonder they lead not to new particu- lars . " Again : " Syllogism consists of propo- sitions , propositions of words , and words are the ...
Página 68
... experience in some way or other . . . . . In catching sight of this principle , and in ascribing to it its due importance , Bacon's sagacity , so far as I am aware , wrought unassisted and unrivalled . ' " " * We cite this to support ...
... experience in some way or other . . . . . In catching sight of this principle , and in ascribing to it its due importance , Bacon's sagacity , so far as I am aware , wrought unassisted and unrivalled . ' " " * We cite this to support ...
Términos y frases comunes
absolutely infinite ancient Aristotle assert Atheism attribute axioms Bacon Bacon's method believe body called cause certitude CHAP CHAPTER colour conceived conception consciousness consequence Cousin declared deductive demonstration Descartes discovery dispute distinct doctrine doubt Dugald Stewart Duke of Guise effect endeavour epoch error Essay Essex existence experience external fact faculties Francis Bacon G. H. LEWES Hobbes human inductive method infinite Innate Ideas inquiry intellect JOHN LOCKE knowledge ledge Leibnitz Locke Locke's logic Macaulay mathematical means ment metaphysical mind Modern Philosophy motion natura naturata nature never object observation ontology opinions original Pantheism passage phenomena philo physical Plato principles produced Prop propositions qualities question quoted reader reason reflection refutation remarks says Scepticism Scholasticism scientific sensation sense sophy speak speculations Spinoza spirit Substance syllogism theory things thinker thought tion true truth understanding Vols Whewell words writers
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Página 18 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 18 - There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke.
Página 209 - SINCE the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate ; it is evident, that our knowledge is only conversant about them.
Página 209 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall be here the criterion? How shall the mind, when it perceives nothing but its own ideas, know that they agree with things themselves...
Página 204 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned : nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there.
Página 210 - ... must necessarily be the product of things operating on the mind in a natural way, and producing therein those perceptions which by the wisdom and will of our Maker they are ordained and adapted to.
Página 194 - If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension...
Página 198 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Página 167 - That when a thing lies still, unless somewhat else stir it, it will lie still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely that nothing can change itself, is not so easily assented to. For men measure not only other men but all other things, by themselves...
Página 194 - I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.