The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... questions which meet us on this ground a conjectural answer only can be given ; we therefore abstain from attempt- ing that which , though it might be precise and exact as to the terms employed , must assume more than is certain , and ...
... questions which meet us on this ground a conjectural answer only can be given ; we therefore abstain from attempt- ing that which , though it might be precise and exact as to the terms employed , must assume more than is certain , and ...
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... questions , that are equally fruit- less and hopeless of any intelligible result . 12. In this place we need only mention two such controversies , in which , though they are as ancient as human speculation , no progress has hitherto ...
... questions , that are equally fruit- less and hopeless of any intelligible result . 12. In this place we need only mention two such controversies , in which , though they are as ancient as human speculation , no progress has hitherto ...
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... questions of this kind ( in any depart- ment of philosophy ) , those who profess to teach it are indulged with the liberty to say every thing that can with an appearance of reason be alleged in its recom- mendation , and to enhance , as ...
... questions of this kind ( in any depart- ment of philosophy ) , those who profess to teach it are indulged with the liberty to say every thing that can with an appearance of reason be alleged in its recom- mendation , and to enhance , as ...
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... questions that meet us stimulate curiosity in minds that are constitutionally inapt for abstract thought , or are incapable of strict analysis , and which quickly lose their grasp of what , for a moment , they have apprehended . Minds ...
... questions that meet us stimulate curiosity in minds that are constitutionally inapt for abstract thought , or are incapable of strict analysis , and which quickly lose their grasp of what , for a moment , they have apprehended . Minds ...
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... question . In 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 ...
... question . In 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 ...
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abstract notions advance affections affirm animal mind animal orders animal organization Astronomy beauty become belief belongs bring brute causation cerning chemical affinity colors concerning condition consciousness constitution course difference distinction elementary book elements emotions existence fact faculty feeling force forward give ground human family human mind human nature human voice hyæna hypothesis ical idea imagine impulse individual infinite infusoria instance instincts intel intellectual philosophy intensity kind labor less logical look Love manner mass material world mathematical matter means ment Mental Philosophy merely metaphysical modes moral motives musical ness never objects ourselves philosophy of Mind physical sciences physiology pleasurable possess present principle purpose question reality reason regard relation remote rudiment scheme sciousness selfism sensations sense social sort species structure supposition sympathies take effect taste things thought tion true truth volition words world of Mind
Beliebte Passagen
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.