 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1863 - 542 pages
...draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are ; [this is Reasoning, or "IJIXL-I,:".] 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. '—I have already... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Philosophy - 1866 - 548 pages
...draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are ; [this is Reasoning, or iJiavoia.] The first of these is the province, and the sole 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.'—I have already... | |
 | James McCosh - 1874 - 480 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... | |
 | James McCosh - Philosophy, Scottish - 1875 - 506 pages
...first is to judge of things self-evident ; the second, to draw conclusions which 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 degree of reason." (p. 425.) He divides... | |
 | 1875 - 852 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." Now, if Reid and his followers had adhered strictly to this definition of common sense, no objection... | |
 | James McCosh - Intuition - 1882 - 472 pages
...first is to judge of things s'elf-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... | |
 | James McCosh - Philosophy - 1887 - 348 pages
...first is to judge of things self-evident, the second to draw conclusions which 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 degree of reason " (p. 425). He divides... | |
 | John Rickaby - Knowledge, Theory of - 1888 - 434 pages
...judge of things self-evident, the second to draw conclusions about things that are not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the province, and the sole province, of common sense." And in the opening chapter of the Second Essay he had said: " Evidence is the ground of judgment, and when... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1888 - 414 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' (Intel. Powers, Essay v1. chap. 2). 'There are propositions which are no sooner understood than they... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson - Theology - 1889 - 948 pages
...first is to judge of things self-evident : the second is to draw conclusios 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" (Intellectual Poiccrs, essay vi. chap. ii.). Even thongh it be granted that there... | |
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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 ;... 
