The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volumen1Books on Demand, 1854 - 480 páginas |
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... conclusions of the author should to the editor appear occasionally to require , beside defence , perhaps supplement , qualification , or even correction . But as I am persuaded of its propriety , so I have I may take this opportunity of ...
... conclusions of the author should to the editor appear occasionally to require , beside defence , perhaps supplement , qualification , or even correction . But as I am persuaded of its propriety , so I have I may take this opportunity of ...
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... conclusions . Does not this distinction mark out , with greater precision , the limits which separate philosophy from mere historical narrative , than that which turns upon the different provinces of Reason and of Memory ? I shall only ...
... conclusions . Does not this distinction mark out , with greater precision , the limits which separate philosophy from mere historical narrative , than that which turns upon the different provinces of Reason and of Memory ? I shall only ...
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... progress of knowledge , the Ety- mology of Languages has been happily employed to fill up the chasms of Ancient History ; and the conclusions of Compara- tive Anatomy , to illustrate the Theory of the Earth 14 DISSERTATION . — PREFACE .
... progress of knowledge , the Ety- mology of Languages has been happily employed to fill up the chasms of Ancient History ; and the conclusions of Compara- tive Anatomy , to illustrate the Theory of the Earth 14 DISSERTATION . — PREFACE .
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... conclusions , the complete and unbiassed exercise of their own rea- son . Such , at least , is the apology offered for the apparent indecision of the Academic school , by one of its wisest , as well as most eloquent adherents . " As for ...
... conclusions , the complete and unbiassed exercise of their own rea- son . Such , at least , is the apology offered for the apparent indecision of the Academic school , by one of its wisest , as well as most eloquent adherents . " As for ...
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... conclusions , at a period when the theory of motion was so imperfectly understood ; or the bold spirit of inquiry which encouraged him to exercise his private judgment , in opposition to the authority of Aristotle , - to the decrees of ...
... conclusions , at a period when the theory of motion was so imperfectly understood ; or the bold spirit of inquiry which encouraged him to exercise his private judgment , in opposition to the authority of Aristotle , - to the decrees of ...
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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...