A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences: (Including the Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and MetaphysicalCharles Porterfield Krauth |
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... means of doing so for himself- by showing whence they are derived , or of what they are com- pounded , and how they have been employed . In like manner , the quotations and references have not been selected with the view of supporting ...
... means of doing so for himself- by showing whence they are derived , or of what they are com- pounded , and how they have been employed . In like manner , the quotations and references have not been selected with the view of supporting ...
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... mean the similarity of two things , but the similarity , or sameness of two relations . There must be more than two ... means which constitutes analogy . No one could say the lungs of a man were analogous to the lungs of a monkey , but ...
... mean the similarity of two things , but the similarity , or sameness of two relations . There must be more than two ... means which constitutes analogy . No one could say the lungs of a man were analogous to the lungs of a monkey , but ...
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... means to ends , or from ends to means . 3. From mere rescm- blance or concomitance . Condillac1 has shown how these modes of reasoning all concur to prove that the human beings around us , who are formed like ourselves ( analogy of ...
... means to ends , or from ends to means . 3. From mere rescm- blance or concomitance . Condillac1 has shown how these modes of reasoning all concur to prove that the human beings around us , who are formed like ourselves ( analogy of ...
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... means hunger , and sometimes figuratively any strong desire . ” 2 As our perceptions are external , which are common to us with the brutes ; and internal , which are proper to us as rational beings - so appetite is sensitive and ...
... means hunger , and sometimes figuratively any strong desire . ” 2 As our perceptions are external , which are common to us with the brutes ; and internal , which are proper to us as rational beings - so appetite is sensitive and ...
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... mean- ings . - 1 . It is used for the premises in contradistinction to the conclusion , e . g . , “ the conclusion ... means the dis- covery of middle terms . Argument ( The Indirect ) . It is opposed to the Ostensive or Direct . Of ...
... mean- ings . - 1 . It is used for the premises in contradistinction to the conclusion , e . g . , “ the conclusion ... means the dis- covery of middle terms . Argument ( The Indirect ) . It is opposed to the Ostensive or Direct . Of ...
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Page 17 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 557 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 320 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 235 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive.
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Page 284 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 903 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 242 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 329 - By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctly.
Page 177 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.