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... Exploratio Philosophica. ... - Page 63by John Grote - 1865Full view - About this book
| Sir William Hamilton - Logic - 1859 - 772 pages
...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...modifications determined by these faculties themselves. This general doctrine being premised, it will be proper now to take some . special notice of the several... | |
| 1859 - 782 pages
...because these modes can be known only if they stand in a certain relation to our faculties; and, thirdly, because the modes thus relative to our faculties are...modifications determined by these faculties themselves" (vol. i., p. 148). In these three general propositions, and in the several clauses, there are an immense... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 584 pages
...1°, 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...modifications determined by these faculties themselves. Two series of expressions applied to human knowledge. — This general doctrine being premised, it... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 584 pages
...1°, 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...modifications determined by these faculties themselves. Two series of expressions applied to human knowledge. — This general doctrine being premised, it... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1861 - 790 pages
...modes. 2°. Because these modes can be known only if they stand in a certain relation to our faculties. 3°. Because the modes, thus relative to our faculties,...modifications determined by these faculties themselves." On p. 102, in introducing the subject, he says : " That whatever we know is not known as it is, but... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1862 - 584 pages
...1°, 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...modifications determined by these faculties themselves. Two series of expressions applied to human knowledge. — This general doctrine being premised, it... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - Perception - 1865 - 174 pages
...elsewhere, ' 1°, Existence is not cognisable absolutely and in itself, but only in special modes; 2°, Because these modes can be known only if they stand...modifications determined by these faculties themselves.' (Meta. i. 148.) To take the last point in this answer first, or the modality, relativity, and modifiedness... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - Perception - 1865 - 140 pages
...modes ; because these modes can be known only if they stand in a certain relation to our faculties; and because the modes, thus relative to our faculties,...modifications determined by these faculties themselves. (Meta. i. 148.) Although, therefore, existence be only revealed to us in phenomena, and though we can,... | |
| M. P. W. Bolton - Philosophy, English - 1866 - 284 pages
...1°, because existence is not cognisable absolutely and in itself, but only in special modes; 2°, because these modes can be known only if they stand...modifications determined by these faculties themselves."* This last paragraph expresses the doctrine ascribed to Hamilton by Mr. Mill and the Reviewer, as above... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1866 - 712 pages
...(Hamilton) gives a third reason (of the relativity of knowledge), and here the error appears. ' 3d. Because the modes thus relative to our faculties,...modifications determined by these faculties themselves.' This doctrine is thoroughly Kantian in itself and in its logical consequences. It makes the mind look... | |
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