The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... mathematical , or even in the physical sciences . This is far from being true . Although , in one sense , we know more of Mind than we can ever know of matter , in another sense we know much less ; or , rather , there is , on this ...
... mathematical , or even in the physical sciences . This is far from being true . Although , in one sense , we know more of Mind than we can ever know of matter , in another sense we know much less ; or , rather , there is , on this ...
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... more refined than such as are formed either by a mathematical training or in the pursuit of physical science . If , therefore , we should fail to make a good plea for these studies on the ground of their direct STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT .
... more refined than such as are formed either by a mathematical training or in the pursuit of physical science . If , therefore , we should fail to make a good plea for these studies on the ground of their direct STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT .
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... mathematics might be so re- garded , for these also are a product of the same faculty , although employed in a different direction , and as con- fined to a particular class of ideas — those of number and extension ; therefore this body ...
... mathematics might be so re- garded , for these also are a product of the same faculty , although employed in a different direction , and as con- fined to a particular class of ideas — those of number and extension ; therefore this body ...
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... mathematical sci- ence into its place in such a scheme . Less inconven- ient , and , on some accounts , reasonable , would it be so to treat metaphysical abstractions . Yet there is a reason sufficient for keeping these also apart , and ...
... mathematical sci- ence into its place in such a scheme . Less inconven- ient , and , on some accounts , reasonable , would it be so to treat metaphysical abstractions . Yet there is a reason sufficient for keeping these also apart , and ...
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... mathematical reasoning , no license or freedom what- ever in the employment of its symbols can be allowed , or , indeed , could be desired ; for these symbols having a fixed connection with the quantities or with the re- lations which ...
... mathematical reasoning , no license or freedom what- ever in the employment of its symbols can be allowed , or , indeed , could be desired ; for these symbols having a fixed connection with the quantities or with the re- lations which ...
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Seite 255 - The idea of a man enjoying a train of pleasures, or happiness, is felt by every body to be a pleasurable idea. The idea of a man under a train of sufferings or pains is equally felt to be a painful idea. This can arise from nothing but the association of our own pleasures with the first idea, and of our own pains with the second. We never feel any pains and pleasures but our own.
Seite 103 - That this is the fact might be very safely inferred from what has hitherto been, the issue, without an exception, of the many ingenious theories propounded with the intention of laying open the world of Mind by the help of chemistry, or any of those sciences that are properly called physical. Every theory resting upon this basis has presently gone off into some quackery, raised for awhile among the uneducated, and soon forgotten.
Seite 106 - Much of that which is to invite attention in this elementary book will consist of an exhibition — first, of what is common to all orders of living beings ; and then a setting forth of what is peculiar to the human mind, and which is the ground of its immeasurable superiority.