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... meaning of scientific ideas , and their fruitful relations to one another , M . Comte is withal singularly monotonous both as a thinker and writer . There is an inexpressible tedium in many of his lengthened elaborations ; and while his ...
... meaning of scientific ideas , and their fruitful relations to one another , M . Comte is withal singularly monotonous both as a thinker and writer . There is an inexpressible tedium in many of his lengthened elaborations ; and while his ...
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... Phil- osophie Positive ' which appeared in this country ( Edin . Rev. , Aug. 1838 ) -a paper understood to be from the pen of Sir David Brewster . meaning , and critically examining it , when we have 32 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... Phil- osophie Positive ' which appeared in this country ( Edin . Rev. , Aug. 1838 ) -a paper understood to be from the pen of Sir David Brewster . meaning , and critically examining it , when we have 32 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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John Tulloch. meaning , and critically examining it , when we have passed in review his method and the great hierarchy of the sciences to the exposition of which his chief work is devoted . The Positive method is the basis of the ...
John Tulloch. meaning , and critically examining it , when we have passed in review his method and the great hierarchy of the sciences to the exposition of which his chief work is devoted . The Positive method is the basis of the ...
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... meaning . Facts and the connections of these facts - in Positivist language , phenomena and their laws - constitute the sum of knowledge to be de- rived from the physical method of inquiry . Wherever we penetrate we find that natural ...
... meaning . Facts and the connections of these facts - in Positivist language , phenomena and their laws - constitute the sum of knowledge to be de- rived from the physical method of inquiry . Wherever we penetrate we find that natural ...
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... meaning by making a cause nothing but an invariable antecedent . To the purely physical philosopher force can be nothing but a transition of conditions . Turn up the mere soil of physics in any direction , analyse to the last the ...
... meaning by making a cause nothing but an invariable antecedent . To the purely physical philosopher force can be nothing but a transition of conditions . Turn up the mere soil of physics in any direction , analyse to the last the ...
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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...