Logic: Or, The Morphology of Knowledge, Volume 1 |
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abstract actual affirmation aggregate analysis Aristotle aspect assertion attributes categorical cause CHAP character characteristic colour comparison conception concrete condition connection consciousness consequent Copula counting crossing the Rubicon decemviri degree denial deny denying the antecedent determinate difference disjunction distinction double negation doubt element ellipse enumeration equation essence exclusion existence expression extension fact generalised given ground hypothetical judgment idea ideal content identity individual inference infinite infinite series instance intelligence intension INTROD involves judg Judgment of Quality knowledge logical Lotze matter meaning measurement ment merely mind nature negation object particular particular judgment perception Plato positive predication present presupposes prima facie principle proper name proportion proposition psychical quantity question ratio real world reality recognised reference relation sense sentence significant simple singular judgment space speak species specific gravity thing thought tion Torbay transition treated true truth units unity universal judgment verb vidual whole
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Page 128 - The Specific Gravity of a substance is the ratio of its weight to that of an equal volume of water.
Page 1 - This resemblance is often expressed by the term " unity of type;" or by saying that the several parts and organs in the different species of the class are homologous.
Page 273 - Everything is real, so long as we do not take it for what it Is not. Time is real as a condition of the experience of sensitive subjects, but it is not a form which profoundly exhibits the unity of things.
Page 187 - The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another; and if the equal sides be produced, the angles -upon the other side of the base shall be equal.
Page 114 - Reality which I dimly presuppose. The immediate subject of the judgment is a mere aspect, too indefinite to be described by explicit ideas except in as far as the qualitative predication imposes a first specification upon it. This Reality is in my judgment ; it is the point at which the actual world impinges upon my consciousness as real, and it is only by judging with reference to this point that I can refer the ideal content before my mind to the whole of reality which I at once believe to exist,...
Page 203 - Islanders, <tc., and over and above all the rest the Library of the British Museum. This is the net result of an indefinitely long struggle between the forces of men and the weights of various kinds in the attempt to move which these forces display themselves.
Page 247 - I entertain no doubt that in content Logic is one with Metaphysics, and differs if at all simply in mode of treatment — in tracing the evolution of knowledge in the light of its value and import, instead of attempting to summarise its value and import apart from the details of its evolution.
Page 203 - Glory, glory: the time is coming when there will be six hundred million Chinese, five hundred million Hindoos, four hundred million Europeans, and Heaven only knows how many hundred million blacks of various shades, and when there will be two British Museums, each with a library. "Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul.
Page 2 - The form of thought is a living function, and the phases and moments of this function are varieties and elements of the form. Therefore the ' Morphology of Knowledge' must be construed as not excluding the Physiology of Thought.