 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...selfevident. The second is, from selfevident principles, to draw conclusions, which are not selfevident. The first of these is the province, and the sole province, of common sense, and, therefore, in its whole extent, it coincides with reason ; and is only another name for one branch or one degree... | |
 | Benjamin Rush - American essays - 1806 - 388 pages
...things self-evident ; the second is to draw conK k " elusions that are not self-evident from things that are. The " first of these is the province, and the sole province, ofcom" mon sense, and therefore it coincides with reason in its whole " extent, and is only another... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...things self-evident ; the second to draw conclusions that are not selfevident from those that arc. The first of these is the province, and the sole province...sense ; and therefore it coincides with reason in its whole extent, and is only another name for one branch or one degree of reason. Perhaps it may be... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - Truth - 1830 - 682 pages
...self-evident; secondly, to draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are. The first is the sole province of common sense ; and, therefore, it coincides with reason throughout its whole extent, and is only another name for one branch or degree of reason. Why, then,... | |
 | Claude Buffier - 1838 - 224 pages
...self-evident; the second, to draw f Harris's Works, vol. i., p. 286. conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the province,...Sense; and, therefore, it coincides with Reason in its whole extent; and is only another name for one branch, or one degree of Reason. Perhaps, it may... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...first is to judge of things self-evident ; the second to draw conclusions that arc not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the province,...sense ; and, therefore, it coincides with reason in its whole extent, and is only another name for one branch or one degree of reason. Perhaps it may be... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Intellect - 1850 - 496 pages
...first is to judge of things self-evident ; the second to draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the province,...sense ; and therefore it coincides with reason in its whole extent, and is only another name for one branch or one degree of reason. Perhaps it may be... | |
 | Evolution, Mental - 1850 - 390 pages
...first is, to judge of things self-evident ; the second, to draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the province, and the sole province, of common sense. Those two degrees of reason differ in other respects. The first is purely the gift of heaven — the... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - Faith - 1858 - 510 pages
...first is to judge of things self-evident; the second, to draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the province...sense ; and therefore it coincides with reason in its whole extent, and is only another name for one branch or one degree of reason. Perhaps it may be... | |
 | James McCosh - History - 1860 - 512 pages
...first is to judge of things self-evident; the second, to draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the province,...common sense, and therefore it coincides with reason in its whole extent, and is only another name for one branch or one degree of reason" (p. 425 : see also... | |
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We ascribe to reason two offices, or two degrees. The first is to judge of things self-evident ; the second to draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the province, and the sole province, of common sense ;... 
