Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error, in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences |
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... proper Class , and to keep our Thoughts from Confusion . The World is now grown fo wise as not to suffer this valuable Art to be engrost by the Schools . In so polite and knowing an Age , every Man of Reason will covet some Acquaintance ...
... proper Class , and to keep our Thoughts from Confusion . The World is now grown fo wise as not to suffer this valuable Art to be engrost by the Schools . In so polite and knowing an Age , every Man of Reason will covet some Acquaintance ...
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... proper Character of Matter or Body . As for the Idea of Space , whether it be void or full , i . e . a Vacuum or a Plenum , whether it be in- terfpers'd among all Bodies , or may be supposed to reach beyond the Bounds of the Creation ...
... proper Character of Matter or Body . As for the Idea of Space , whether it be void or full , i . e . a Vacuum or a Plenum , whether it be in- terfpers'd among all Bodies , or may be supposed to reach beyond the Bounds of the Creation ...
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... proper entirely to omit all Accounts of them , and therefore have thrown them into the Margin . Some Philofophers fuppofe that our Acquaintance with Matter or Mind reaches no farther than the mere Properties of them , and that there is ...
... proper entirely to omit all Accounts of them , and therefore have thrown them into the Margin . Some Philofophers fuppofe that our Acquaintance with Matter or Mind reaches no farther than the mere Properties of them , and that there is ...
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... Proper or Improper . Adherent or improper Modes arife from the joining of fome accidental Subftance to the chief Subject , which yet may be separated from it ; fo when a Bowl is wet , or a Boy is cloth'd , these are adherent Modes ; for ...
... Proper or Improper . Adherent or improper Modes arife from the joining of fome accidental Subftance to the chief Subject , which yet may be separated from it ; fo when a Bowl is wet , or a Boy is cloth'd , these are adherent Modes ; for ...
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... proper Sub- jects . SECT . V. Of the ten Categories . Of Substance modify'd . W E have thus given an Account of the two chief Objects of our Ideas , ( viz . ) Substances and Modes , and their various Kinds : And in these last Sections ...
... proper Sub- jects . SECT . V. Of the ten Categories . Of Substance modify'd . W E have thus given an Account of the two chief Objects of our Ideas , ( viz . ) Substances and Modes , and their various Kinds : And in these last Sections ...
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Page 71 - ... yourselves, as well as learn them from others ; be acquainted with men as well as books ; learn all things as much as you can at...
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Page 184 - Some are good humoured without compliment ; others have all the formalities of complaisance, but no good humour. We ought to know that one man may be vicious and learned, while another has virtue without learning. That many a man thinks admirably well, who has a poor utterance ; while others have a charming manner of speech, but their thoughts are trifling and impertinent. Some are good neighbours, and courteous, and charitable toward men, who have no piety towards God ; others are truly religious,...
Page 285 - After a considerable time Protagoras goes to law with Euathlus for the reward, and uses this dilemma : ' Either the cause will go on my side, or on yours : if the cause...
Page 308 - Parts of this fort of Learning are well •worth our Study ; for by perpetual Examples they teach us to conceive with Clearnefs, to connect our Ideas and Propofitions in a Train of Dependence, to reafon with Strength and DemonItration, and to diftinguifh between Truth and Falfhood.
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Page 2 - Veritas in puteo, truth lies in a well; and to carry on this metaphor we may very justly say, that logic does, as it were, supply us with steps whereby we may go down to reach the water; or it frames the links of a chain, whereby we may draw the water up from the bottom.
Page 280 - ... 2. A disjunctive syllogism is when the major proposition is disjunctive ; as, The earth moves in a circle or an ellipsis ; but it does not move in a circle ; therefore, it moves in an ellipsis. " A disjunctive syllogism may have many members or parts : thus, It is either spring, summer, autumn, or winter ; but it is not spring, autumn, or winter ; therefore, it is summer.
Page 174 - God himfelf. that gives a convincing and indubitable evidence of the truth and divinity of it...
Page 71 - Use the most proper methods to retain that treasure of ideas which you have acquired; for the mind is ready to let many of them slip, unless some pains and labor be taken to fix them upon the memory.