 | Tobias Smollett - 1785 - 518 pages
...thefe is the province, and the fole province of common fenfe ; and therefore it coincides with reafon in its whole extent, and is only another name for one branch or one degree of reafon. {"'-•rhaps it may be aid, why th^n fhould you give it a particular name, iince it is acknowledged... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1785 - 526 pages
...province, and the fole province of common fenfe ; and therefore it coincides with reafon in its whoie extent, and is only another name for one branch or one degree of reafon. Perhaps it may be laid, why then (hould you give it a particular name, fince it is acknowledged... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1803 - 676 pages
...thefe is the province, and the fole province of common fenfe ; and therefore it coincides with reafon in its whole extent, and is only another name for one branch or one degree of reafon. Perhaps it may be faid, Why then mould you give it a particular name, fince it is acknowledged... | |
 | James Wilson - 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... | |
 | Robert Eden Scott - 1805 - 500 pages
...the province, and the fole province * of Common Senfe ; and, therefore, it coin* cides with reafon in its whole extent, and is * only another name for one branch or one ' degree of reafon. Perhaps it may be faid, * Why then fhould you give it a particular * name, fince it is acknowledged... | |
 | Benjamin Rush - 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 - 1815 - 434 pages
...offiees, or two degrees. The first is to judge of things self-evident ; the seeond to draw eonelusions that are not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the provinee, and the sole provinee of eommon sense ; and therefore it eoineides with reason in its whole... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - 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,... | |
 | 1850 - 390 pages
...Reason two offices or degrees. The first is, to judge of things self-evident ; the second, to draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that...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... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - 528 pages
...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...reason in its whole extent, and is only another name fo? one branch or one degrec of reason. Perhaps it may be said, Why, then, should you give it a particular... | |
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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 ; and... 
