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... conception , it is not the fitting in- spiration for a serious survey of the course of meta- physical speculation . A History of Philosophy , ' written to show that philosophy , in the usual sense , is from first to last an illusion ...
... conception , it is not the fitting in- spiration for a serious survey of the course of meta- physical speculation . A History of Philosophy , ' written to show that philosophy , in the usual sense , is from first to last an illusion ...
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... conception . With the particulars of their quarrel we need not trouble ourselves . It was inevitable in the circum- stances . Comte was far too ambitious to work per- manently under any master . He was apt to be for- getful , too , of ...
... conception . With the particulars of their quarrel we need not trouble ourselves . It was inevitable in the circum- stances . Comte was far too ambitious to work per- manently under any master . He was apt to be for- getful , too , of ...
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... conception precision , range , and consistency , although in some minor matters it may have left it behind the actual state of advance of the several sciences . In the second and chief part of my work , I have found it even necessary ...
... conception precision , range , and consistency , although in some minor matters it may have left it behind the actual state of advance of the several sciences . In the second and chief part of my work , I have found it even necessary ...
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... conceptions , was very rapid . He has himself given us , at the end of the sixth volume of the ' Course of Positive Philosophy , ' the dates within which its successive parts were written , and these show in certain cases an almost ...
... conceptions , was very rapid . He has himself given us , at the end of the sixth volume of the ' Course of Positive Philosophy , ' the dates within which its successive parts were written , and these show in certain cases an almost ...
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... conceptions , is equally shown in his later as in his earlier writings . There is not more weakness in the one than in the other ; there is only more extravagance , more inordinate confidence in his own generalisations , a more ...
... conceptions , is equally shown in his later as in his earlier writings . There is not more weakness in the one than in the other ; there is only more extravagance , more inordinate confidence in his own generalisations , a more ...
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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...