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... clear movement of argument . While claiming to be a rigorous logician , and to keep closely in his first great work , the Cours de Philoso- phie Positive , ' to the province of objective fact , he is yet arbitrary and deductive in the ...
... clear movement of argument . While claiming to be a rigorous logician , and to keep closely in his first great work , the Cours de Philoso- phie Positive , ' to the province of objective fact , he is yet arbitrary and deductive in the ...
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... clearly to understand . Certainly no attempt to esti- mate his character or works would be adequate which put this grave crisis of his life out of sight . A painful incident springing out of his malady is related at some length by Mr ...
... clearly to understand . Certainly no attempt to esti- mate his character or works would be adequate which put this grave crisis of his life out of sight . A painful incident springing out of his malady is related at some length by Mr ...
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... clear conclusion . Comte was an embar- rassing colleague at the Polytechnique , just as he was an embarrassing husband at home . He liked his own " J'aurai la parole , et j'en userai , " 1 was fre- quently in his mouth in both places ...
... clear conclusion . Comte was an embar- rassing colleague at the Polytechnique , just as he was an embarrassing husband at home . He liked his own " J'aurai la parole , et j'en userai , " 1 was fre- quently in his mouth in both places ...
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... clearly the use that could be made of it polemically ; the sceptical or negative bearings of the principle are equally to be found in his writings . So far , therefore , there is nothing original in Positivism . The Scottish sceptic had ...
... clearly the use that could be made of it polemically ; the sceptical or negative bearings of the principle are equally to be found in his writings . So far , therefore , there is nothing original in Positivism . The Scottish sceptic had ...
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... clearly understood its import . The very exaggeration and exclusiveness with which he has used it has served to bring out more pre- cisely its true meaning . Facts and the connections of these facts - in Positivist language , phenomena ...
... clearly understood its import . The very exaggeration and exclusiveness with which he has used it has served to bring out more pre- cisely its true meaning . Facts and the connections of these facts - in Positivist language , phenomena ...
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Agnosticism argument Arnold Auguste Comte basis betwixt Blackwood's Magazine Caro character Christian Comte Comte's conception consciousness criticism Crown 8vo Democritus Divine doctrine dogma Dr Tyndall Edinburgh essay ethical existence experience external facts Fcap feeling Ferrier force German Gravenhurst Greek Philosophy Hartmann higher History human Hume idea ideal Illustrations intellectual intelligence Kant Kant's Kantian knowledge Königsberg Kritik language Lectures less LL.D logical materialistic matter meaning ment merely metaphysical mind modern moral nature never object perception Pessimism phenomena philosophy physical Positive Positivism Positivist Post 8vo principle privat-docent Professor question reality reason recognise religion religious righteousness says Schopenhauer scientific Scotland Scottish Second Edition sense Sir William Hamilton speculation sphere spiritual supposed Theism theology theory things thinker Thorndale thought tion Translated true truth University University of Edinburgh vols volume whole WILLIAM BLACKWOOD words writings
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Page 303 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 158 - 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 of reasoning, from the one to the other.
Page 295 - Governor of the universe," is to talk what appears to him unverifiable nonsense. But to talk of God as " the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being...