History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Հատոր 1J. W. Parker and son, 1858 - 4 էջ |
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... mind deriving its knowledge of Truth from the observation of nature , cannot evade the task of determining at every step how Truth is consistent with itself . This is the Metaphysics of Progressive Knowledge , and this is the matter of ...
... mind deriving its knowledge of Truth from the observation of nature , cannot evade the task of determining at every step how Truth is consistent with itself . This is the Metaphysics of Progressive Knowledge , and this is the matter of ...
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... Mind . CHAP . IV . OF THE AXIOMS WHICH RELATE TO THE IDEA OF CAUSE • Causes are Abstract Conceptions . Art . I. 2 . First Axiom . 3. Second Axiom . Limitation of the Second Axiom . 4 . 5 . Third Axiom . 6. Extent of the Third Axiom ...
... Mind . CHAP . IV . OF THE AXIOMS WHICH RELATE TO THE IDEA OF CAUSE • Causes are Abstract Conceptions . Art . I. 2 . First Axiom . 3. Second Axiom . Limitation of the Second Axiom . 4 . 5 . Third Axiom . 6. Extent of the Third Axiom ...
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... mind , has been a favourite em- ployment of speculative men from the earliest to the most recent times . To inquire into the original , cer- tainty , and compass of man's knowledge , the limits of his capacity , the strength and ...
... mind , has been a favourite em- ployment of speculative men from the earliest to the most recent times . To inquire into the original , cer- tainty , and compass of man's knowledge , the limits of his capacity , the strength and ...
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... mind , should be from time to time re- vised and corrected or extended . Erroneous and par- tial views are ... minds the effect of falsehood . When evils of this kind have grown to a serious height , a Reform is requisite . The faults of ...
... mind , should be from time to time re- vised and corrected or extended . Erroneous and par- tial views are ... minds the effect of falsehood . When evils of this kind have grown to a serious height , a Reform is requisite . The faults of ...
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... mind as are too partial and limited , or too vague and loose , or too abstract and unsubstantial , to represent fitly the real forms of discovery and of truth . Of former attempts , made with the same view of tracing the conditions of ...
... mind as are too partial and limited , or too vague and loose , or too abstract and unsubstantial , to represent fitly the real forms of discovery and of truth . Of former attempts , made with the same view of tracing the conditions of ...
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History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy ..., Հատոր 1 William Whewell Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy ..., Հատոր 1 William Whewell Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy ..., Հատոր 1 William Whewell Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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Էջ 294 - Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c.
Էջ 55 - Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow ; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.
Էջ 34 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Էջ 294 - Qualities thus considered in bodies are, first, such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what estate soever it be ; such as in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter, though less than to make itself singly be perceived by our senses...
Էջ 60 - If any one does not clearly comprehend this distinction of necessary and contingent truths, he will not be able to go along with us in our researches into the foundations of human knowledge; nor, indeed, to pursue with success any speculation on the subject.'^ In the following passage we are told what the distinction is, the non-recognition of which incurs this denunciation.
Էջ 152 - The axiom just noted that what is true up to the limit is true at the limit...
Էջ 25 - Parallelograms upon the same base and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Էջ 287 - ... of the greatest. When he counts his little wealth, he finds he has in his hands coins which bear the image and superscription of ancient and modern intellectual dynasties, and that in virtue of this possession acquisitions are in his power, solid knowledge within his reach, which none could ever have attained to if it were not that the gold of truth once dug out of the mine circulates more and more widely among mankind.
Էջ 157 - The lever, the pulley, the wheel, and axle, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw.
Էջ 127 - On the other hand, there is an inseparable connection between the exercise of the sense of vision and the exercise of the voluntary muscles of the eye. When an object is seen, we enjoy two senses : -there is an impression upon the retina ; but we receive also the idea of position or relation, which it is not the office of the retina to give. It is by the consciousness of the degree of effort put upon the voluntary muscles, that we know the relative position of an object to ourselves.