History of Philosophy: History of modern philosophy. With additions by the translator, an appendix on English and American philosophy by Noah Porter, and an appendix on Italian philosophy by Vincenzo BottaScribner, Armstrong, 1876 - Philosophy |
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Page 370 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us an assurance suitable to that degree of force which remains, after deducting the inferior.
Page 186 - In a product of beautiful art, we must become conscious that it is art and not nature; but yet the purposiveness in its form must seem to be as free from all constraint of arbitrary rules as if it were a product of mere nature.
Page 46 - X is a triangle we know that the sum of its angles is equal to two right angles. Similarly too in all other cases.
Page 448 - Instinct — Its Office in the Animal Kingdom, and Its Relation to the Higher Powers in Man.
Page 69 - Things could have been -produced by God in no other manner and in no other order than that in which they have been produced.
Page 74 - God is the very love of God with which God loves himself, not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be...
Page 415 - Where two or more ideas have been often repeated together, and the association has become very strong, they sometimes spring up in such close combination as not to be distinguishable. Some cases of sensation are analogous. For example ; when a wheel, on the seven parts of which the seven prismatic...
Page 78 - It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge, and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.
Page 354 - A proposition, proposed to the observation of, or impressed upon, the mind, with sufficient clearness, by the nature of things, from the will of the first cause, which points out that possible action of a rational agent, which will chiefly promote the common good, and by which only the entire happiness of particular persons can be obtained.
Page 69 - I considered as belonging to the essence of a thing that, which being given, the thing is necessarily given also, and which being removed, the thing is necessarily removed also ; or that without which the thing, and which itself without the thing can neither be nor be conceived.