The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volumen1Books on Demand, 1854 - 480 páginas |
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... ( according to him ) furnish very useful lights ; although he acknowledges that the results of the two undertakings cannot fail to differ widely in many instances the laws which regulate the generation of our ideas often interfering with ...
... ( according to him ) furnish very useful lights ; although he acknowledges that the results of the two undertakings cannot fail to differ widely in many instances the laws which regulate the generation of our ideas often interfering with ...
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... ( according to him ) furnish very useful lights ; although he acknowledges that the results of the two undertakings cannot fail to differ widely in many instances the laws which regulate the generation of our ideas often interfering with ...
... ( according to him ) furnish very useful lights ; although he acknowledges that the results of the two undertakings cannot fail to differ widely in many instances the laws which regulate the generation of our ideas often interfering with ...
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... according as it is employed in reasoning on the objects of our direct ideas , or in studying them as models for imitation . " Thus , Memory , Reason , strictly so called , and Imagination , are the three modes in which the mind operates ...
... according as it is employed in reasoning on the objects of our direct ideas , or in studying them as models for imitation . " Thus , Memory , Reason , strictly so called , and Imagination , are the three modes in which the mind operates ...
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... according as they are cultivated or neglected , constitute the most essential of all distinctions between the intellectual characters of individuals . A corre- sponding distinction , too , not less important , may be remarked among the ...
... according as they are cultivated or neglected , constitute the most essential of all distinctions between the intellectual characters of individuals . A corre- sponding distinction , too , not less important , may be remarked among the ...
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... ( according to his own acknowledgment ) the man who is habitually occupied in exerting the one , seldom fails to impair both his capacity and his relish for the exercise of the other . This identification of two faculties , so strongly ...
... ( according to his own acknowledgment ) the man who is habitually occupied in exerting the one , seldom fails to impair both his capacity and his relish for the exercise of the other . This identification of two faculties , so strongly ...
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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...