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... according to this hypothesis , but mental states . All that is is ego ; is the self - acting of itself and limiting itself , and so producing the non - ego or universe . Such is the doctrine on which a kind of atheism has been founded ...
... according to this hypothesis , but mental states . All that is is ego ; is the self - acting of itself and limiting itself , and so producing the non - ego or universe . Such is the doctrine on which a kind of atheism has been founded ...
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... according to Yang Choo , is but a phan- tom , virtue is but a delusion , and enjoyment has alone some reality and good in it . Hence he advises men not to care for praise or blame , virtue or vice , except as a means of enjoyment ; to ...
... according to Yang Choo , is but a phan- tom , virtue is but a delusion , and enjoyment has alone some reality and good in it . Hence he advises men not to care for praise or blame , virtue or vice , except as a means of enjoyment ; to ...
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... according to it , is destroyed when the elements from which it arises are dissolved . There is no soul apart from the body : the soul is only the body distinguished by the attribute of intelligence . The various phenomena of the world ...
... according to it , is destroyed when the elements from which it arises are dissolved . There is no soul apart from the body : the soul is only the body distinguished by the attribute of intelligence . The various phenomena of the world ...
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... according to law and necessity ; that the atoms were infinite in number and endlessly diversified in form ; and that in falling through boundless space they dashed against each other , since the larger ones moved more rapidly than the ...
... according to law and necessity ; that the atoms were infinite in number and endlessly diversified in form ; and that in falling through boundless space they dashed against each other , since the larger ones moved more rapidly than the ...
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... by induction , is thoroughly inaccurate . The ancients proceeded so far by induction ; it is only so far that the moderns can proceed by it . ― According to the theory we are considering , the Epicurean Materialism . 59.
... by induction , is thoroughly inaccurate . The ancients proceeded so far by induction ; it is only so far that the moderns can proceed by it . ― According to the theory we are considering , the Epicurean Materialism . 59.
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Page 160 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to. another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 384 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 172 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
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