The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volumen1Books on Demand, 1854 - 480 páginas |
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... Bacon's Philosophical Works , 25 CHAPTER II . Progress of Philosophy from the publication of Bacon's Philosophical Works till that of the Essay on Human Under- standing . SECT . 1. Progress of Philosophy in England during this period.- ...
... Bacon's Philosophical Works , 25 CHAPTER II . Progress of Philosophy from the publication of Bacon's Philosophical Works till that of the Essay on Human Under- standing . SECT . 1. Progress of Philosophy in England during this period.- ...
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... Bacon , together with the corrections and improvements suggested by his illustrious disciple , would , I thought , have rendered it com- paratively easy to adapt their intellectual map to the present advanced state of the sciences ...
... Bacon , together with the corrections and improvements suggested by his illustrious disciple , would , I thought , have rendered it com- paratively easy to adapt their intellectual map to the present advanced state of the sciences ...
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... Bacon and D'Alembert have lent so great and so well - merited a celebrity ; and may perhaps suggest a doubt , whether the period be yet arrived for hazarding again , with any reasonable prospect of success , a repetition of their bold ...
... Bacon and D'Alembert have lent so great and so well - merited a celebrity ; and may perhaps suggest a doubt , whether the period be yet arrived for hazarding again , with any reasonable prospect of success , a repetition of their bold ...
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... Bacon seems , on this occasion , to have prevented him from giving due scope to his own powerful and fertile genius , and has engaged him in the fruitless task of attempting , by means of arbitrary definitions , to draw a veil over ...
... Bacon seems , on this occasion , to have prevented him from giving due scope to his own powerful and fertile genius , and has engaged him in the fruitless task of attempting , by means of arbitrary definitions , to draw a veil over ...
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... Bacon , as it contains various explanatory clauses and glosses , for which we are in- debted to the ingenuity of the commentator . 66 The objects about which our minds are occupied , are either spiritual or material , and the media ...
... Bacon , as it contains various explanatory clauses and glosses , for which we are in- debted to the ingenuity of the commentator . 66 The objects about which our minds are occupied , are either spiritual or material , and the media ...
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Página 223 - Secondly, the other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without ; and such are Perception, Thinking, Doubting, Believing, Reasoning, Knowing, Willing, and all the different actings of our own minds...
Página 456 - 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 575 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Página 224 - 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 427 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Página 254 - 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.
Página 205 - Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side.
Página 439 - ... 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.
Página 443 - One event follows another; but we never can observe any tie between them. They seem conjoined, but never connected. And as we can have no idea of any thing which never appeared to our outward sense or inward / sentiment, the necessary conclusion seems to be that we ./ have no idea of connexion or power at all, and that these words are absolutely without any meaning, when employed either in philosophical reasonings or common life.
Página 579 - In short, our Souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing Delusion, and we walk about like the Enchanted Hero of a Romance, who sees beautiful Castles, Woods and Meadows...