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... EXAMINATION AND HONOURS FOR A DEGREE IN ARTS , DURING CENTURIES ESTABLISHED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN ,. PAGE 707 735 ( C. ) ON A REFORM OF THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES : WITH ESPE- CIAL REFERENCE TO OXFORD ; AND LIMITED TO THE FACULTY ...
... EXAMINATION AND HONOURS FOR A DEGREE IN ARTS , DURING CENTURIES ESTABLISHED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN ,. PAGE 707 735 ( C. ) ON A REFORM OF THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES : WITH ESPE- CIAL REFERENCE TO OXFORD ; AND LIMITED TO THE FACULTY ...
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... examination was the abolition of the metaphysical sciences , of Rational Psychology , Ontology , Speculative Theo- logy , & c . , as founded on mere petitiones principiorum . Exist- ence is revealed to us only under specific ...
... examination was the abolition of the metaphysical sciences , of Rational Psychology , Ontology , Speculative Theo- logy , & c . , as founded on mere petitiones principiorum . Exist- ence is revealed to us only under specific ...
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... examination , it will be found that his two primitive Ideas are nothing more than contradictory relatives . These , consequently , of their very na- ture , imply each other in thought ; but they imply each other only as affirmation and ...
... examination , it will be found that his two primitive Ideas are nothing more than contradictory relatives . These , consequently , of their very na- ture , imply each other in thought ; but they imply each other only as affirmation and ...
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... examination of his Lectures , to distribute to him his own , and to estimate his pro- perty at its true value ! [ See Diss . on Reid , pp . 868 , 869 , alibi . ] reputation of which he has been too long defrauded in 44 PHILOSOPHY OF ...
... examination of his Lectures , to distribute to him his own , and to estimate his pro- perty at its true value ! [ See Diss . on Reid , pp . 868 , 869 , alibi . ] reputation of which he has been too long defrauded in 44 PHILOSOPHY OF ...
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... examination in almost every school , but which Reid , with an ignorance wiser than know- ledge , confesses he does not understand ; is nothing more than an irrational attempt to explain , what is , in itself , inexplicable . How the ...
... examination in almost every school , but which Reid , with an ignorance wiser than know- ledge , confesses he does not understand ; is nothing more than an irrational attempt to explain , what is , in itself , inexplicable . How the ...
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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.