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... truth without reason— goes well with empiricism , and since the days of Hume they have even had something of respect for one another . But it is a respect which is not credit- able to religion , and by which religion always suffers in ...
... truth without reason— goes well with empiricism , and since the days of Hume they have even had something of respect for one another . But it is a respect which is not credit- able to religion , and by which religion always suffers in ...
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... truth which they reveal amidst masses of astound- ing self - assertion and even downright nonsense , as well as some genuine respect for the moral earnest- ness of the writer , render them tolerable . To the majority of readers they ...
... truth which they reveal amidst masses of astound- ing self - assertion and even downright nonsense , as well as some genuine respect for the moral earnest- ness of the writer , render them tolerable . To the majority of readers they ...
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... truth it was but imperfectly understood and applied by that great teacher of Method.1 It received a definite impulse from the 1 The scientific or inductive method is so commonly associated with Bacon as to be often styled " Baconian ...
... truth it was but imperfectly understood and applied by that great teacher of Method.1 It received a definite impulse from the 1 The scientific or inductive method is so commonly associated with Bacon as to be often styled " Baconian ...
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... truths , the growing diffusion of which is very much . owing to the Positive Philosophy . Not only so . Comte has not only established the scientific character of social phenomena in a more per- fect manner than any previous philosopher ...
... truths , the growing diffusion of which is very much . owing to the Positive Philosophy . Not only so . Comte has not only established the scientific character of social phenomena in a more per- fect manner than any previous philosopher ...
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... what constitutes a science is all that Comte's disciples require , namely , discover- ing or proving and pursuing to their consequences 1 P. 53 . those of its truths which are fit to form the AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . 51.
... what constitutes a science is all that Comte's disciples require , namely , discover- ing or proving and pursuing to their consequences 1 P. 53 . those of its truths which are fit to form the AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . 51.
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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...