 To adopt a distinction familiar in the writings of the Scotch metaphysicians, and especially of Reid, the causes with which I concern myself are not efficient but physical causes. They are causes in that sense alone in which one physical fact is said...  Proceedings - Page 121by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 580 pages
...certainty. He even covertly impugns it. Discussing the Law of Universal Causation, he observes : " Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any...exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion. The notion of causation is deemed to imply a mysterious and most powerful tie, such as cannot, or at... | |
 | William Adam (of Matlock Baths, Eng.) - History - 1862 - 460 pages
...They are causes in that sense alone in which one physical fact may be said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any such causes exist at all, he is not called upon to give an opinion. He neither affirms nor denies their existence. He treats... | |
 | Théodule Ribot - Psychology - 1873 - 382 pages
...They are causes in that sense alone, in which one physical fact is said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any...exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion. The notion of causation is deemed, by the schools of metaphysics most in vogue at the present moment,... | |
 | Thomas Penyngton Kirkman - Metaphysics - 1876 - 368 pages
...of the cause of any phenomenon, I do not mean a cause which is not itself a phenomenon.' .... ' Of efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any such...at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion.' . . . . ' The only notion of a cause, which the theory of induction requires, is such a notion as can... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1880 - 540 pages
...science ; so that is as far as it can be from the truth, that the past and future rotation of curth is, as Mill pretends, "accounted for," that is, with...verb efficere has a meaning, nor that there is an effectitm, but he will not hear of an efficiens. That, forsooth, did not concern the theory of Universal... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880 - 542 pages
...Cause? — grasped there and then the clearest and most potent thought that ever uplifted man or angei. My notion is that this Cause is a conscious and intelligent...Causation. What I have further here to say about the Cause mil be little more than an examination, for the instruction of my younger friends, of what distinguished... | |
 | George Lyon Turner - Desire - 1880 - 388 pages
...physical fact is said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether such causes exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion." 3 § 231. Now I cannot help remarking that, candid as seem these avowals, charmingly modest as are... | |
 | Benjamin Shaw - Positivism - 1880 - 86 pages
...(Logiaof • Induction, i. 338, 3rd Edit.) : " Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether.any such causes exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion. The notion of causation is deemed by the schools of metaphysics, most, in vogue at the present moment... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1884 - 660 pages
...They are causes in that sense alone in which one physical fact is said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any such causes exist at all, I am not posed of separate fibres ; this collective older is made up of particular sequences, obtaining invariably... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1900 - 676 pages
...is said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any such canses exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion. The notion of causation is deemed, by the schools of metaphysics most in vogue at the present moment,... | |
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