 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1862 - 710 pages
...which is before us what Hobbes thought of philosophy, and what was his method of treating it. 44. " Philosophy is such knowledge of effects or appearances...again, of such causes or generations as may be from first knowing their effects." Definitions in Hobbes are all-important — to understand them is to... | |
 | 1870 - 492 pages
...many seeds from which pure and true philosophy may hereafter spring up by little and little. . . . Philosophy is such knowledge of effects or appearances...generations as may be from knowing first their effects. . . By ratiocination I mean computation. Now to compute is either to collect the sum of things that... | |
 | 1870 - 974 pages
...sudden acuteness, but of a well-balanced reason ; which by the compendium of a word, we call philosophy. Philosophy is such knowledge of effects or appearances...their causes or generation ; and again, of such causes and generations as may be from knowing first their effects." "The first beginnings of knowledge are... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1873 - 744 pages
...which is before us what Hobbes thought of philosophy, and what was his method of treating it. 44. " Philosophy is such knowledge of effects or appearances...again, of such causes or generations as may be from first knowing their effects." Definitions in Hobbes are all-important — to understand them is to... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1882 - 744 pages
...which is before us what Hobbes thought of philosophy, and what was his method of treating it. 44. " Philosophy is such knowledge of effects or appearances...again, of such causes or generations as may be from first knowing their effects." Definitions in Hobbes are all-important — to understand them is to... | |
 | John Phelps Fruit - 1895 - 62 pages
...discussing, the fundamental question of the relation of being to knowing. He defines philosophy as 'such a knowledge of effects or appearances, as we acquire by true ratiocination from the knowledge we have of their causes or generation: and again of such causes or generations as may be from knowing first... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1903 - 444 pages
...therefore to the matter, and take my beginning from the very definition of philosophy, which is this. 3. PHILOSOPHY is such knowledge of effects or appearances,...acquire by true ratiocination from the knowledge we hare first of their causes or generation: And again, of such causes or generations as may be from knowing... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes, Mary Whiton Calkins - 1905 - 226 pages
...therefore to the matter, and take my beginning from the very definition of philosophy, which is this. 2. PHILOSOPHY is such knowledge of effects or appearances,...although Sense and Memory of things, which are common to rr.an and all living creatures, be knowledge, yet because they are given us immediately by nature,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes, Mary Whiton Calkins - 1905 - 232 pages
...therefore to the matter, and take my beginning from the very definition of philosophy, which is this. 2. PHILOSOPHY is such knowledge of effects or appearances,...again, of such causes or generations as may be from knoiving first their effects. For the better understanding of which definition, we must consider, first,... | |
 | David Graham - 1908 - 410 pages
...love to the waiting women." 2 Hobbes in one place calls it " the study of wisdom " ; s and again, " such knowledge of effects or appearances as we acquire...ratiocination from the knowledge we have first of their causes and generation : and again of such causes or generations as may be from knowing first their effects."... | |
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PHILOSOPHY is such knowledge of effects or appearances, as we acquire by true ratiocination from the knowledge we have first of their causes or generation: And again, of such causes or generations as may be from knowing first their effects. 
