The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Հատոր 1

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J. W. Parker, 1847

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Sensations become Perceptions
14
By means of Ideas
15
OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ANTITHESIS OF PHILOSOPHY
16
Attempts to conceive the Process of Generation
17
Transition to Psychology
18
A center is introduced
19
The central consciousness may be obscure
20
Reflex Muscular Action
21
Instinct
22
Difficulty of conceiving Instinct
23
Ideas and Sensations
24
Man the Interpreter of Nature
37
The Fundamental Antithesis is inseparable
45
OF THE GROUNDS OF NECESSARY TRUTHS
66
CHAP VIII
69
THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS ARE NOT DERIVED FROM
74
BOOK II
82
OF SOME PECULIARITIES OF THE IDEA OF SPACE
88
SPACE
91
OF SOME OBJECTIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE TO
101
PAGE
102
OF THE PERCEPTION OF SPACE
111
Art 1
114
OF THE IDEA OF TIME
125
Time is not an Abstract Notion
128
Arithmetical Axioms
134
OF MATHEMATICAL REASONING
141
THE DOCTRINE OF MOTION
150
BOOK III
164
MODERN OPINIONS RESPECTING THE IDEA OF CAUSE 701
170
OF THE AXIOMS WHICH RELATE TO THE IDEA OF CAUSE
177
OF THE ORIGIN OF OUR CONCEPTIONS OF FORCE
185
OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPLES
192
OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPLES
215
OF THE PARADOX OF UNIVERSAL PROPOSITIONS
245
OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL
254
OF THE GENERAL DIFFUSION OF CLEAR MECHANICAL
262
Additional Note to Chapter IV On the Axioms which relate
274
ON PECULIARITIES IN THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE DIF
286
The Paradoxes of Vision
291
The Perception of Visible Figures
302
OF THE MEASURE OF SECONDARY QUALITIES
319
Scales of Colour
326
Scales of Light
333
BOOK V
345
OF THE CONNEXION OF POLARITIES
357
BOOK VI
376
ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA
388
OF THE IDEA OF SUBSTANCE
404
Mohss System
514
2
531
6
539
BOOK IX
543
CHAP V
547
ATTEMPTS TO ANALYSE THE IDEA OF LIFE
571
ATTEMPTS TO FORM IDEAS OF SEPARATE VITAL FORCES
597
OF THE IDEA OF FINAL CAUSES
618
This included in the Notion of Disease 12 It belongs to Organized Creatures only 13 The term Final Cause
628
Law and Design 15 Final Causes and Morphology 16 Expressions of physiological Ends 17 The Conditions of Existence
632
BOOK X
637
OF THE THREE MEMBERS OF A PALETIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
642
The Study of Causes
643
Etiology
644
Phenomenology requires Classification Phenomenal Geology
645
Phenomenal Uranology 6 Phenomenal Geography of Plants and Animals
648
Phenomenal Glossology
649
The Study of Phenomena leads to Theory
651
No sound Theory without Etiology
652
Causes in Paletiology 11 Various kinds of Cause
655
Hypothetical Order of Palætiological Causes
656
In Geology
658
15 In Languages
661
Construction of Theories
663
OF THE DOCTRINE OF CATASTROPHES AND THE DOC TRINE OF UNIFORMITY
665
Doctrine of Uniformity
667
Is Uniformity probable a priori? 4 Cycle of Uniformity indefinite
670
Uniformitarian Arguments are Negative only
671
Uniformity in the Organic World
674
Origin of the present Organic World
675
Nebular Origin of the Solar System 9 Origin of Languages
677
No Natural Origin discoverable
679
OF THE RELATION OF TRADITION TO PALETIOLOGY
680
Connexion of Tradition and Science 3 Natural and Providential History of the World
681
The Sacred Narrative
683
Difficulties in interpreting the Sacred Narrative
684
Such Difficulties inevitable
686
The asserted presumption of Teleology 19 Final Causes in other subjects 20 Transition to Palætiology
687
Scientific views when familiar do not disturb the authority of Scripture
688
When should Old Interpretations be given
690
In what Spirit should the Change be accepted?
691
In what Spirit should the Change be urged?
694
Duty of Mutual Forbearance
695
Case of Galileo
696
OF THE CONCEPTION OF A FIRST CAUSE
700
The Origin of things is not naturally discoverable 2 Yet has always been sought after 3 There must be a First Cause
702
This is an Axiom 5 Involved in the Proof of a Deity 6 The Mind is not satisfied without it 7 The Whole Course of Nature must have a Cause 8 Necess...
704
Idea of a First Cause is Necessary
706
Conception of a First Cause 12 The First Cause in all Sciences is the same 13 We are thus led to Moral Subjects Conclusion of Part I
707

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Էջ 278 - 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 384 - Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature?
Էջ 429 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them...
Էջ 429 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Էջ 52 - 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 19 - Parallelograms upon the same base and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Էջ 429 - While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages: but should they wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things, depending on them, would be changed.
Էջ 278 - 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 42 - knows that there is a mask of theory over the whole face of " nature, if it be theory to infer more than we see. But other •' men, unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be a fact that " they see cubes and spheres, spacious apartments and winding " avenues. And these things are facts to them, because they " are unconscious of the mental operation by which they have " penetrated nature's disguise2".
Էջ 419 - ... that dephlogisticated or pure air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat and light...

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