Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern PhilosophyMacmillan, 1910 - 259 pages |
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... doctrine must everywhere exactly correspond to a relation of cause and effect in the system of objective reality . From the methodological standpoint , this means that all explanation or proof of anything must be in terms of its causes ...
... doctrine must everywhere exactly correspond to a relation of cause and effect in the system of objective reality . From the methodological standpoint , this means that all explanation or proof of anything must be in terms of its causes ...
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... doctrine , Hobbes is saved by his nominalism ; while Leibniz is distinguished by his ' principle of sufficient reason , ' according to which the determi- nation of an effect involves not only logical necessity but the selection of the ...
... doctrine , Hobbes is saved by his nominalism ; while Leibniz is distinguished by his ' principle of sufficient reason , ' according to which the determi- nation of an effect involves not only logical necessity but the selection of the ...
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... doctrine which were very important for the future development of empiricism . In the first place , he attacked one of the most central positions of rationalism by maintaining that all our ideas of substances , whether material or ...
... doctrine which were very important for the future development of empiricism . In the first place , he attacked one of the most central positions of rationalism by maintaining that all our ideas of substances , whether material or ...
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... doctrines , as with men , the sympathetic criticism is the best . In the first place , the observation is famil- iar , that the endeavor to do bare justice is a constant source of rank injustice , —that the habit of checking up each 16 ...
... doctrines , as with men , the sympathetic criticism is the best . In the first place , the observation is famil- iar , that the endeavor to do bare justice is a constant source of rank injustice , —that the habit of checking up each 16 ...
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... doctrine who has not been previously led to a similar hypothesis in the course of his own reflections . This , at any rate , we may safely say : first , that to discover a formal fallacy in the reasonings of one of the great masters is ...
... doctrine who has not been previously led to a similar hypothesis in the course of his own reflections . This , at any rate , we may safely say : first , that to discover a formal fallacy in the reasonings of one of the great masters is ...
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Page 127 - And the tangible fact at the root of all our thoughtdistinctions, however subtle, is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice.
Page 166 - To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may involve — what sensations we are to expect from it, and what reactions we must prepare.
Page 27 - If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle as is here described, it is in vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is, that the reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or no.
Page 27 - Thirdly, so long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas, divested of words, I do not see how I can easily be mistaken. The objects I consider, I clearly and adequately know. I cannot be deceived in thinking I have an idea which I have not. It is not possible 5 [Omitted in the second edition.
Page 176 - The ideas of Sense are more strong, lively, and distinct than those of the imagination; they have likewise a steadiness, order, and coherence, and are not excited at random, as those which are the effects of human wills often are, but in a regular train or series, the admirable connexion whereof sufficiently testifies the wisdom and benevolence of its Author.
Page 176 - Now, of what nature is this fixed order among our sensations? It is a constancy of antecedence and sequence. But the constant antecedence and sequence do not generally exist between one actual sensation and another. Very few such sequences are presented to us by experience. In almost all the constant sequences which occur in nature, the antecedence and consequence do not obtain between sensations, but between the groups we have been speaking about, of which a very small portion is actual sensation,...
Page 34 - For how is it possible we can separate what is not distinguishable, or distinguish what is not different? In order therefore to know, whether abstraction implies a separation, we need only consider it in this view, and examine, whether all the circumstances, which we abstract from in our general ideas, be such as are distinguishable and different from those, which we retain as essential parts of them.
Page 195 - Now if we will annex a meaning to our words, and speak only of what we can conceive, I believe we shall acknowledge, that an idea, which considered in itself is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort.
Page 42 - By substance, I mean that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself : in other words, that of which a conception can be formed independently of any other conception.
Page 26 - It is certain by experience that when we look at a near object with both eyes, according as it approaches or recedes from us, we alter the disposition of our eyes, by lessening or widening the interval between the pupils. This disposition or turn of the eyes is attended with a sensation, which seems to me to be that which in this case brings the idea of greater or lesser distance into the mind.