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... SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S LECTURES ON METAPHYSICS 8 CHAPTER VI . THE SCALE OF SENSATION OR KNOWLEDGE 106 CHAPTER VII . SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON - CONSCIOUSNESS OF MATTER 125 CHAPTER VIII . LOGIC - MR MILL 146 MILL'S LOGIC - CONTINUED PAGE ...
... SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S LECTURES ON METAPHYSICS 8 CHAPTER VI . THE SCALE OF SENSATION OR KNOWLEDGE 106 CHAPTER VII . SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON - CONSCIOUSNESS OF MATTER 125 CHAPTER VIII . LOGIC - MR MILL 146 MILL'S LOGIC - CONTINUED PAGE ...
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... Sir William Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics . The third , Mr Mill's Logic . The fourth , Dr Whewell's series of works , representing his former ' Philosophy of the In- ductive Sciences ' . The fifth and sixth , which however I fear ...
... Sir William Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics . The third , Mr Mill's Logic . The fourth , Dr Whewell's series of works , representing his former ' Philosophy of the In- ductive Sciences ' . The fifth and sixth , which however I fear ...
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... Sir William Hamilton - and the same as to Professor Fraser . It so happens that of those whom I notice some are alive and some are dead - it cannot therefore be said that I care to criticise only those who can feel the criticism , or ...
... Sir William Hamilton - and the same as to Professor Fraser . It so happens that of those whom I notice some are alive and some are dead - it cannot therefore be said that I care to criticise only those who can feel the criticism , or ...
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... Sir William Hamilton's Lectures that I will say little of them here . I have had occasion to criticise Sir Wil- liam Hamilton rather strongly : but , recurring to what I said a short time since about all the books , I think we shall ...
... Sir William Hamilton's Lectures that I will say little of them here . I have had occasion to criticise Sir Wil- liam Hamilton rather strongly : but , recurring to what I said a short time since about all the books , I think we shall ...
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... Sir William Hamilton . I speak in this doubtful manner only because I have purposely avoided learning further . Perhaps this will be understood . To have waited , and referred to what Mr Mill may thus say , would have involved a wider ...
... Sir William Hamilton . I speak in this doubtful manner only because I have purposely avoided learning further . Perhaps this will be understood . To have waited , and referred to what Mr Mill may thus say , would have involved a wider ...
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Page 228 - He knows that there is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature, if it be theory to infer more than we see. But other men unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be a fact that they see cubes and spheres, spacious apartments and winding avenues. And these things are facts to them, because they are unconscious of the mental operation by which they have penetrated nature's disguise.
Page 63 - Because existence is not cognizable, absolutely and in itself, but only in special modes ; 2°, Because these modes can be known only if they stand in a certain relation to our faculties ; and 3°, Because the modes thus relative to our faculties are presented to, and known by, the mind only under modifications determined by these faculties themselves.