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... logical and historical methods . An essen- tial irrationality seems to me to underlie his whole temporary Review ' ; that on " Modern Scientific Materialism " in Black- wood's Magazine . ' But the others , with the exception of the two ...
... logical and historical methods . An essen- tial irrationality seems to me to underlie his whole temporary Review ' ; that on " Modern Scientific Materialism " in Black- wood's Magazine . ' But the others , with the exception of the two ...
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... logical affinities , and the relations of his thought to other systems , we make but a little way when we are left groping amidst the old generalities , which are to him an everlasting gospel , the converse of all that has hitherto made ...
... logical affinities , and the relations of his thought to other systems , we make but a little way when we are left groping amidst the old generalities , which are to him an everlasting gospel , the converse of all that has hitherto made ...
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... logical instru- ment or method extending to all . On the clearest grounds , therefore , Mathematics stands at the head of the natural sciences - which may be ranged in the following order : Mathematics , Astronomy , Physics , Chemistry ...
... logical instru- ment or method extending to all . On the clearest grounds , therefore , Mathematics stands at the head of the natural sciences - which may be ranged in the following order : Mathematics , Astronomy , Physics , Chemistry ...
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... logical phenomena , and must be investigated after 1 This is only true of Comte's original series as given in the ' Cours de Philosophie Positive . ' Afterwards he added the science of " Morals , " and professed to attach great ...
... logical phenomena , and must be investigated after 1 This is only true of Comte's original series as given in the ' Cours de Philosophie Positive . ' Afterwards he added the science of " Morals , " and professed to attach great ...
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... logical front to opponents , if he had been careful to recognise , from the outset of his analysis , that he carries with him the idea of Mind as the root and only exponent of Law in all its applications to nature in its simplest and ...
... logical front to opponents , if he had been careful to recognise , from the outset of his analysis , that he carries with him the idea of Mind as the root and only exponent of Law in all its applications to nature in its simplest and ...
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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...