Elements of the philosophy of the human mindHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... Probable or Contin- gent Truths 1. Narrow Field of Demonstrative Evidence . - Of Demonstrative Evidence , when combined with that of Sense , as in Practical Geometry ; and with those of Sense and of Induction , as in the Mechanical ...
... Probable or Contin- gent Truths 1. Narrow Field of Demonstrative Evidence . - Of Demonstrative Evidence , when combined with that of Sense , as in Practical Geometry ; and with those of Sense and of Induction , as in the Mechanical ...
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... probable or im- probable , is called by logicians the faculty of judgment . The same word , too , is frequently used to express the particular acts of this power , as when the decision of the understanding on any question is called a ...
... probable or im- probable , is called by logicians the faculty of judgment . The same word , too , is frequently used to express the particular acts of this power , as when the decision of the understanding on any question is called a ...
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... probable ? Would it not be equally proper to dis- tinguish , by different names , the power by which we perceive one proposition to be true , and another to be false ? As to knowledge , I do not think that it can , with pro- priety , be ...
... probable ? Would it not be equally proper to dis- tinguish , by different names , the power by which we perceive one proposition to be true , and another to be false ? As to knowledge , I do not think that it can , with pro- priety , be ...
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... probable , our conclusions will be only demonstratively probable . In mathematics , the first principles from which we reason are a set of axioms which are not only intuitively certain , but of which we find it impossible to conceive ...
... probable , our conclusions will be only demonstratively probable . In mathematics , the first principles from which we reason are a set of axioms which are not only intuitively certain , but of which we find it impossible to conceive ...
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... probable he will at last , of himself , from mere weariness , come over to the side of common sense and reason . " † To the authorities which have been already produced by Reid and his successors , in vindication of that mode of arguing ...
... probable he will at last , of himself , from mere weariness , come over to the side of common sense and reason . " † To the authorities which have been already produced by Reid and his successors , in vindication of that mode of arguing ...
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Page 327 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 327 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 5 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries, communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
Page 67 - For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find, that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other : and this I think we may call intuitive knowledge.
Page 162 - I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness ; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having gone through it, break from his abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion.
Page 261 - And although the arguing from Experiments and Observations by Induction be no Demonstration of general Conclusions; yet it is the best way of arguing which the Nature of Things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the Induction is more general.
Page 76 - I demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. [And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle.
Page 119 - In like manner, when it is said, that " triangles on the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal...
Page 139 - If a straight line meet two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Page 162 - He had another particularity, of which none of his friends ever ventured to ask an explanation. It appeared to me some superstitious habit which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so...