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... Leibnitz , itself the ideal abstract of the Teutonic char- acter , had reacted powerfully on the minds of his countrymen ; and Rationalism , ( more properly Intellectualism , * ) has , from his * [ On the modern commutation of Intellect ...
... Leibnitz , itself the ideal abstract of the Teutonic char- acter , had reacted powerfully on the minds of his countrymen ; and Rationalism , ( more properly Intellectualism , * ) has , from his * [ On the modern commutation of Intellect ...
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... Leibnitz , Wolf , & c . Deprived of these terms , the Critical philosophy , indeed the whole philosophy of Germany , would be a blank . In this country , though familiarly employed in scientific language , even subsequently to the time ...
... Leibnitz , Wolf , & c . Deprived of these terms , the Critical philosophy , indeed the whole philosophy of Germany , would be a blank . In this country , though familiarly employed in scientific language , even subsequently to the time ...
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... Leibnitz , the Infinite , the Absolute , the Unconditioned , formed the highest principle of speculation ; but from the dawn of philosophy in the school of Elea until the rise of the Kantian philosophy , no serious attempt was made to ...
... Leibnitz , the Infinite , the Absolute , the Unconditioned , formed the highest principle of speculation ; but from the dawn of philosophy in the school of Elea until the rise of the Kantian philosophy , no serious attempt was made to ...
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... Leibnitz spoke truly , when he said " Aurum latere in stercore illo scholastico barbariei . " [ See Diss . on Reid , p . 804-815 . ] observation with the most irresistible conviction of two facts , 54 PHILOSOPHY OF PERCEPTION .
... Leibnitz spoke truly , when he said " Aurum latere in stercore illo scholastico barbariei . " [ See Diss . on Reid , p . 804-815 . ] observation with the most irresistible conviction of two facts , 54 PHILOSOPHY OF PERCEPTION .
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... Leibnitz , in the phænomena of Kant , and in the external states of Brown . It mediately determined the hierarchical gradation of faculties or souls of the Aristotelians , -the vehicular media of the Platonists , -the theories of a ...
... Leibnitz , in the phænomena of Kant , and in the external states of Brown . It mediately determined the hierarchical gradation of faculties or souls of the Aristotelians , -the vehicular media of the Platonists , -the theories of a ...
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Page 308 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 14 - As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.