The Portico, Volume 3Tobias Watkins, Stephen Simpson Neale Wills & Cole, 1817 |
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Page 11
... Human knowledge [ says he ] or , more properly , that sort of human know- ledge , which we entitle science , may be defined : A coincidence between the association of ideas , and the order or succession of events or phenomena ...
... Human knowledge [ says he ] or , more properly , that sort of human know- ledge , which we entitle science , may be defined : A coincidence between the association of ideas , and the order or succession of events or phenomena ...
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... human knowledge , is confessedly the most difficult task , upon which human ingenuity can exert itself ; and we feel no disposition to expose ourselves to the charge of pre- sumption , by making the attempt : but we shall not be ...
... human knowledge , is confessedly the most difficult task , upon which human ingenuity can exert itself ; and we feel no disposition to expose ourselves to the charge of pre- sumption , by making the attempt : but we shall not be ...
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... human knowledge . He is pleased to consider almost every thing that has been written on the subject of the human intellect , as an attempt to form a classification ; and dig- nifies with the name of system several catalogues of ...
... human knowledge . He is pleased to consider almost every thing that has been written on the subject of the human intellect , as an attempt to form a classification ; and dig- nifies with the name of system several catalogues of ...
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