Logic, 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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... never have the fame nature without it . Such is roundness in a bowl , hardness in a ftone , foftnefs in water , vital motion in an animal , fo- Hidity in matter , thinking in a fpirit ; for though that piece of wood which is now a bowl ...
... never have the fame nature without it . Such is roundness in a bowl , hardness in a ftone , foftnefs in water , vital motion in an animal , fo- Hidity in matter , thinking in a fpirit ; for though that piece of wood which is now a bowl ...
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... never inform a man who was born blind or deaf what we mean by the words yellow , blue , red , or by the words loud or thrill , nor convey any just ideas of these things to his mind , by all the powers of language , unless he has ...
... never inform a man who was born blind or deaf what we mean by the words yellow , blue , red , or by the words loud or thrill , nor convey any just ideas of these things to his mind , by all the powers of language , unless he has ...
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... never a fpecies , is call- ed the most general ; and the loweft fpecies , which is never a genus , is called the moft fpecial . It may be obferved here also , that , that general na- ture or property wherein one thing agrees with most ...
... never a fpecies , is call- ed the most general ; and the loweft fpecies , which is never a genus , is called the moft fpecial . It may be obferved here also , that , that general na- ture or property wherein one thing agrees with most ...
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... never observed . III . IDEAS are either perfect or imperfect , which are otherwife called adequate or inadequate . Thofe are adequate ideas which perfectly represent their archetypes or objects . Inadequate ideas are but a partial or ...
... never observed . III . IDEAS are either perfect or imperfect , which are otherwife called adequate or inadequate . Thofe are adequate ideas which perfectly represent their archetypes or objects . Inadequate ideas are but a partial or ...
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... never be comprehended by his creatures . Note 2. Though there are a multitude of ideas which may be called perfect or adequate , in a vulgar sense , yet there are fcarce any ideas which are adequate , comprehenfive , and complete in a ...
... never be comprehended by his creatures . Note 2. Though there are a multitude of ideas which may be called perfect or adequate , in a vulgar sense , yet there are fcarce any ideas which are adequate , comprehenfive , and complete in a ...
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Page 152 - Certainty, according to the schools, is distinguished into objective and subjective. Objective certainty, is when the proposition is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we are certain of the truth of it. The one is in things, the other is in our minds.
Page 69 - TC'URNISH yourself ^with a rich variety £• of ideas ; acquaint yourselves with things ancient and modern; things natural, civil and religious ; things domestic a'nd national ; things of your native land, and of foreign countries ; things present, past, and future...
Page 247 - When the consequent is contradicted in the minor proposition, that the antecedent may be contradicted in the conclusion : as, If atheists are in the right, then the world exists without a cause; but the world does not exist without a cause ; therefore, atheists...
Page 9 - Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellowcreatures, the brutes, in this lower world."—L. Introduction. I have before showed an error in the first sentence of Doctor Watts's work. This is the second sentence. The words,
Page 72 - To shorten something of this labor, if the books which you read are your own, mark with a pen, or pencil, the most considerable things in them which you desire to remember. Thus you may read that book the second time over with half the trouble, by your eye running over the paragraphs which your pencil has noted...
Page 12 - Judgment is that operation of the mind, wherein we join two or more ideas together by one affirmation or negation : that is, we either affirm or deny this to be that. So this tree is high ; that...
Page 247 - The conditional or hypothetical syllogism, is that whose major or minor, or both, are conditional propositions ; as, If there be a God, the world is governed by Providence ; but there is a God ; therefore the world is governed by Providence.
Page 70 - ... other cities and countries when you have seen your own, under the care of one who can teach you to profit by travelling, and to make wise...
Page 245 - Therefore, the nurse came not to the consultation. 555. (III.) Or comparative propositions ; as, Knowledge is better than riches ; Virtue is better than knowledge ; Therefore, virtue is better than riches. Or thus : A dove will fly a mile in a minute ; A swallow flies swifter than a dove ; Therefore, a swallow will fly more than a mile in a minute.
Page 72 - I persuade myself, that you did not buy it- as a bookseller, to sell it again for gain, but as a scholar to improve your mind by it ; and if the mind be improved, your advantage is .abundant, though your book yields les.s mopey to your executors.