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... existence of an unseen world , or of beings higher than man , is at best problematical , and admits of no veri- fication . This naturalistic or agnostic principle is especially identified with " Positivism , " and has been launched on ...
... existence of an unseen world , or of beings higher than man , is at best problematical , and admits of no veri- fication . This naturalistic or agnostic principle is especially identified with " Positivism , " and has been launched on ...
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... existence which he led during these years . He allowed no diversions to interfere with his great work ; its inspiring generalisations wholly possessed him ; and although unhappy at home , and in a state of chronic quarrel with his ...
... existence which he led during these years . He allowed no diversions to interfere with his great work ; its inspiring generalisations wholly possessed him ; and although unhappy at home , and in a state of chronic quarrel with his ...
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... existence apart from these sub- stances , and no determining influence over them . It is simply an expression denoting that in given cir- cumstances given relations will always be found to arise in particular phenomena . All the old ...
... existence apart from these sub- stances , and no determining influence over them . It is simply an expression denoting that in given cir- cumstances given relations will always be found to arise in particular phenomena . All the old ...
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... existence - the physical - which gives us science , and no other . There is no higher order embracing the physical , and illuminating it from above with ideas of Reason ( Metaphysic ) , or of Purpose ( Theology ) . All truth arises from ...
... existence - the physical - which gives us science , and no other . There is no higher order embracing the physical , and illuminating it from above with ideas of Reason ( Metaphysic ) , or of Purpose ( Theology ) . All truth arises from ...
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... main- tains that " Monotheism is irreconcilable with the existence in our nature of the instincts of benevolence ! " - ( " Catechism , ' p . 251. ) and impart meaning to them , the more illuminating must AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . 55.
... main- tains that " Monotheism is irreconcilable with the existence in our nature of the instincts of benevolence ! " - ( " Catechism , ' p . 251. ) and impart meaning to them , the more illuminating must AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . 55.
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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...