The Monist, Volumen37Paul Carus Open Court, 1927 Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices. |
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... aerial , or celestial space determined by its position in respect of the earth . " Similarly Newton draws the distinction between abso- lute and relative position , and absolute and relative motion . Though he states these propositions ...
... aerial , or celestial space determined by its position in respect of the earth . " Similarly Newton draws the distinction between abso- lute and relative position , and absolute and relative motion . Though he states these propositions ...
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A. N. Whitehead absolute abstract activity affective tendency appears argument Aristotle artist aspect autosuggestion beauty behavior Bertrand Russell C. D. Broad character complete conception concrete consciousness critical critical realism distinct doctrine dream elements ence energy environment epistemology esthetic ethical evolution existence experience fact finite function fundamental Hippias Major human idea ideal implies infinite infinity instants instinct instrument knowledge laws Leibniz Lloyd Morgan logical mathematical matter means mechanical ment mental metaphysical method mind Monist motion mystic nature neural object observed organism past phenomena philosophy physical Plato political position possible postulates present principle principle of relativity problem psychical psychology pure question realist reality reason relation relativity religion religious result scientific seems sensa sense sensum social space Space-Time structure subconscious suggestion theory theory of relativity things thought Timaeus tion truth unconscious unity universe whole
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Página 206 - ... Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Página 335 - God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said, 'Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world!
Página 198 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 79 - The only thing we are not entitled to imagine is that any human being ever has, or ever, by any possibility, can, live in either — can ever see and enjoy the beauty of the one or hate the foulness of the other. Well, even so, supposing them quite apart from any possible contemplation of human beings ; still is it irrational to hold that it is better that the beautiful world should exist, than the one which is ugly...
Página 192 - Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe. I will clothe every man, woman and child in an attire of which kings and queens would be proud. I will build a school house on every hillside and in every valley over the whole earth. I will build an academy in every town and endow it, a college in every State and fill it with able professors.
Página 206 - I do not define time, space, place and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the vulgar conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which, it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.
Página 546 - I do not know what I may appear to the World ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 575 - True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
Página 79 - Imagine these all combined in the most exquisite proportions, so that no one thing jars against another, but each contributes to increase the beauty of the whole. And then imagine the ugliest world you can possibly conceive. Imagine it simply one heap of filth...
Página 300 - A writer91 has recently maintained that " it is probably no exaggeration to suppose " that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, " it must be improved in ten different ways at once. And " the improbability of any complex organ being produced " and brought to perfection in any such way is an im" probability of the same kind and degree as that of producing " a poem or a mathematical demonstration by throwing " letters at random on a table.