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" To what then, it may be asked, does this statement amount ? Merely to this, that the mind is so formed that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects, are followed by correspondent sensations, and that these sensations (which... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 250
1847
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - 1802 - 632 pages
...but, fingular as it may appear, Dr. Reid was the firft perfon who had courage to lay completely afide all the common hypothetical language concerning perception,...exhibit the difficulty in all its magnitude, by a plain ftatement of the fact. To what then, it may be alked, does this ftatement ftatement amount ? — Merely...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pages
...the body, is a mystery which has never yet been unfolded ; but, singular as it may appear, Dr. Reid was the first person who had courage to lay completely...is so formed, that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects, are followed by correspondent sensations ; and that these...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...the body, is a mystery which has never yet been unfolded ; but, singular as it may appear, Dr. Reid was the first person who had courage to lay completely...is so formed, that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects, are followed by correspondent sensations ; and that these...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...the body, is a mystery which has never yet been unfolded ; but, singular as it may appear, Dr. Reid was the first person who had courage to lay completely...concerning perception, and to exhibit the difficulty in alt its magnitude, by a plain statement of the fact. To what then, it may be asked, does this statement...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 pages
...the body, is a mystery which has never yet been unfolded ; but, singular as it may appear, Dr. Reid was the first person who had courage to lay completely...all its magnitude, by a plain statement of the fact. Towhat then, it may be asked, does this statement amount ? — Merely to this ; that the mind is so...
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A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, Part First, Volume 1

Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 pages
...singular as the fact may appear, Dr. Reid was the first person who had the courage to lay completely aside the common hypothetical language concerning perception,...its magnitude by a plain statement of the fact."* Let the Professor read the aforementioned passages of Mr. Locke, and blush for his ignorance or disingenuousness....
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Elements of the philosophy of the human mind

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...the body is a mystery which has never yet been unfolded ; but, singular as it may appear, Dr. Reid was the first person who had courage to lay completely...then, it may be asked, does this statement amount 1 — Merely to this ; that the mind is so formed, that certain impressions produced on our orans of,...
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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My ..., Volume 1, Issue 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 572 pages
...the body is a mystery, which has never yet heen unfolded; but, singular as it may appear, Dr. Reid was the first person who had courage to lay completely...and to exhibit the difficulty in all its magnitude, hy a plain statement of the fact. To what then, it may be asked, does this statement amount ? Merely...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62

1847 - 818 pages
...Reid's doctrine, which must be regarded as a perfectly faithful representation: — " Dr Reid," says Mr Stewart, " was the first person who had courage...language concerning perception, and to exhibit the tlijfiiully, in ¡ill its magnitude, by a plain statement of the fact. To what, then, it may be asked,...
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 pages
...consisted in his having " had courage to lay aside all the hypothetical language of his predecessors concerning perception, and to exhibit the difficulty...its magnitude by a plain statement of the fact."* But if he misunderstood that language, and combated, as Sir James affirms (p. 164), " imaginary antagonists,"...
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