The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... the hardness , and the taste and smell of the two metals ; the compound term , color of zinc , serves to bind together several qualities , affecting the senses of sight and touch , and which METAPHYSICS : ULTIMATE ABSTRACTIONS . 31.
... the hardness , and the taste and smell of the two metals ; the compound term , color of zinc , serves to bind together several qualities , affecting the senses of sight and touch , and which METAPHYSICS : ULTIMATE ABSTRACTIONS . 31.
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... taste , smell , and hearing , or through any two or more of these senses combined . 50. A sphere is before me which I touch , and find it to be solid and hard : its color is a gray blue - the color of iron . When struck , it gives a ...
... taste , smell , and hearing , or through any two or more of these senses combined . 50. A sphere is before me which I touch , and find it to be solid and hard : its color is a gray blue - the color of iron . When struck , it gives a ...
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... taste and smell ; but we now think of it as devoid of those properties : in this respect it is as a globe of glass . We have supposed it to be sonorous ; but now it returns no sound when struck . We have seen it to be of a bright color ...
... taste and smell ; but we now think of it as devoid of those properties : in this respect it is as a globe of glass . We have supposed it to be sonorous ; but now it returns no sound when struck . We have seen it to be of a bright color ...
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... taste or smell . 57. But , moreover , that those bodies which excite in me this belief do indeed exist independently of me , I have this further evidence , that although the vis in- ertia which belongs to them may , within certain lim ...
... taste or smell . 57. But , moreover , that those bodies which excite in me this belief do indeed exist independently of me , I have this further evidence , that although the vis in- ertia which belongs to them may , within certain lim ...
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... taste - and as to solid extension and the vis inertia of masses , as well as one or more properties that are obscurely indicated in the instincts of some insect orders . Diversity be- longs to the exterior of animal life , but at every ...
... taste - and as to solid extension and the vis inertia of masses , as well as one or more properties that are obscurely indicated in the instincts of some insect orders . Diversity be- longs to the exterior of animal life , but at every ...
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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.