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... physical basis of life ? Is Reason or Soul , in other words , an entity , and not a mere manifestation of nervous force - a life behind all other life , and not merely the highest and most complex phase of natural life ? All the ...
... physical basis of life ? Is Reason or Soul , in other words , an entity , and not a mere manifestation of nervous force - a life behind all other life , and not merely the highest and most complex phase of natural life ? All the ...
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... physical speculation . A History of Philosophy , ' written to show that philosophy , in the usual sense , is from first to last an illusion , " mere energy wasted on insoluble problems , " seems more absurd in two large elaborate ...
... physical speculation . A History of Philosophy , ' written to show that philosophy , in the usual sense , is from first to last an illusion , " mere energy wasted on insoluble problems , " seems more absurd in two large elaborate ...
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... physical phenomena , are equally illusory . They are not in the facts ; they are hypo- theses added to the facts , in their character incapable of verification , and , instead of enlightening thought or serving to explain nature , in ...
... physical phenomena , are equally illusory . They are not in the facts ; they are hypo- theses added to the facts , in their character incapable of verification , and , instead of enlightening thought or serving to explain nature , in ...
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... physical method of inquiry . Wherever we penetrate we find that natural phenomena are linked together in endless sequence ; there is no jar to the harmony of their movement ; there are no disconnected threads in the vast work of ...
... physical method of inquiry . Wherever we penetrate we find that natural phenomena are linked together in endless sequence ; there is no jar to the harmony of their movement ; there are no disconnected threads in the vast work of ...
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... 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 complication of external phenomena , and force as a distinct reality is nowhere found ...
... 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 complication of external phenomena , and force as a distinct reality is nowhere found ...
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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...