Elements of Thought: Or, Concise Explanations (alphabetically Arranged) of the Principal Terms Employed in the Several Branches of Intellectual PhilosophyHoldsworth and Ball, 1833 - 165 Seiten |
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... probable that his conquests would have remained in his possession to the end of the longest term of human life . We do not often stop to recollect how much meaning is condensed within five or six words by the aid of grammatical forms ...
... probable that his conquests would have remained in his possession to the end of the longest term of human life . We do not often stop to recollect how much meaning is condensed within five or six words by the aid of grammatical forms ...
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... probable delay arising from the want of horses , and so forth . Now these assertions , though founded in truth , may have been mistated or exaggerated ; and hence it may become necessary to examine each separate proposition , of which ...
... probable delay arising from the want of horses , and so forth . Now these assertions , though founded in truth , may have been mistated or exaggerated ; and hence it may become necessary to examine each separate proposition , of which ...
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... probable opinion , which falls very far short of full persuasion . But it is found ( if a large number of instances are taken into the account ) to be more advantageous , and less really hazardous , to act , and to venture upon some ...
... probable opinion , which falls very far short of full persuasion . But it is found ( if a large number of instances are taken into the account ) to be more advantageous , and less really hazardous , to act , and to venture upon some ...
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... probable that M. or N. will act in this or that manner . Our notion of contingency and of cer- tainty depends so much upon our knowledge or ignorance of causes , that involuntarily we think an event that is to happen to - morrow , much ...
... probable that M. or N. will act in this or that manner . Our notion of contingency and of cer- tainty depends so much upon our knowledge or ignorance of causes , that involuntarily we think an event that is to happen to - morrow , much ...
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... probable supposition on the subject . But these aerial changes are far beyond our reach , and therefore cannot be subjected to experiment . Not so that other atmospheric phenomenon thunder and lightning . Dr. Franklin surmised that ...
... probable supposition on the subject . But these aerial changes are far beyond our reach , and therefore cannot be subjected to experiment . Not so that other atmospheric phenomenon thunder and lightning . Dr. Franklin surmised that ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absolutely abstract notions abstract terms acquired admit advantage affirmed AMEN CORNER analogy analysis animals argument ascer assent association of ideas attention believe bishop of Rome body called cause and effect circumstances conclusion connexion consciousness contingent copula degree demonstration difference distinguished Dunmow emotions employed error especially event evidence example exer existence express external object facts faculty of abstraction fallacious feeling genus habit human mind hypothesis ideas imagination inference influence instance intel intellectual ISAAC TAYLOR judgment kind knowledge known logic matter means memory ment mental Metaphysics method mode motive natural philosophy nature opinion particular perceive personal identity persons philosophy possess prejudice principles probable produced proper properties purpose quadruped qualities racter reasoning recollection relation rience Romford rule sensation sense separation shews sition sophisms sort speak spoken substance successive supposed supposition SYLLOGISM taste testimony things thought tical tion true truth unquestionable truth word
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 46 - Nor how strong soever may be any particular habit of thinking, is any mind absolutely incapable of breaking off its customary meditations, and of fixing itself upon another set of ideas. Every one is conscious of possessing a power (more or less perfect) of detaining some one thought, or class of thoughts, in the mind, and of considering, or viewing a particular subject successively, in all its parts and relations. This power is called Attention. It is the proper and distinguishing excellence of...
Seite 94 - the power of the mind to decompose its conceptions and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure.
Seite 44 - ... addict themselves to the cultivation of philosophy, from the influence of mere taste. In this manner new discoveries are made ; and these, more or less directly, improve the arts of life ; and so a perpetual advancement goes on by the mutual influence of mechanical skill and philosophical principles. ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS. It is the law or usage of the human mind long to retain any connexion, even of the most accidental kind, which has once been formed between two or more thoughts or states of...
Seite 45 - The mathematician, the mechanician, the statesman, the poet, the artist, the man of business, each acquires his proper habit of association, and each is prompt and successful in his line, just in proportion to the rationality and the closeness of the connexions that have been formed in his mind. This principle of the association of ideas is sometimes, or by some writers, called the law of Suggestion.
Seite 14 - ... alike in some single quality ; and when this one quality is distinctly taken notice of, we readily learn to think of it apart from the other qualities with which it may have been joined ; and thus the mind acquires the habit of drawing off certain properties of things, and of giving names to them : this habit is called abstraction ; and the words employed on such occasions are called abstract terms.
Seite 161 - Apostles, is confinned in each of the methods above mentioned, and by the combination of them all. Indeed it may boldly be affirmed that no fact whatever, in ancient history, is nearly so well and fully attested as is the Gospel history. If that history is rejected, then not only is all history an illusion, but the entire system of human...
Seite 66 - From contingo, to touch upon, or happen. In popular language, whatever event takes place of which we do not discern the cause, why it should have happened in this manner, or at this moment, rather than another, is called a contingent event; or an event without a cause : as for example, the falling of a leaf on a particular spot, or the turning up of a certain number, when dice are thrown.