Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform: Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review; Cor., Vindicated, Enl., in Notes and Appendices |
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... favour or caprice . How superior in this respect is the recommendation of the Scottish Municipal Commissioners ! Indeed , this proposal of the Oxford Report , did it not repress hope , might even excite ridicule . For it actually ...
... favour or caprice . How superior in this respect is the recommendation of the Scottish Municipal Commissioners ! Indeed , this proposal of the Oxford Report , did it not repress hope , might even excite ridicule . For it actually ...
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... favour of the opinion that the Absolute , Infinite , Unconditioned , is a primitive notion , cognisable by our intellect ; in the second , that his argument to prove the correality of his three Ideas proves directly the reverse ; in the ...
... favour of the opinion that the Absolute , Infinite , Unconditioned , is a primitive notion , cognisable by our intellect ; in the second , that his argument to prove the correality of his three Ideas proves directly the reverse ; in the ...
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... favour of its truth . A plurality of causes is not to be postu- lated , where one is sufficient to account for the phænomena , ( Entia non sunt multiplicanda præter necessitatem ) : and M. Cousin , in supposing three positive ideas ...
... favour of its truth . A plurality of causes is not to be postu- lated , where one is sufficient to account for the phænomena , ( Entia non sunt multiplicanda præter necessitatem ) : and M. Cousin , in supposing three positive ideas ...
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... favour , with a universality and vigour corresponding to their encouragement . The only example , indeed , that can be adduced of any interest in such subjects , recently exhibited in this country , is the favour- able reception of Dr ...
... favour , with a universality and vigour corresponding to their encouragement . The only example , indeed , that can be adduced of any interest in such subjects , recently exhibited in this country , is the favour- able reception of Dr ...
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... favour of Brown's conclusion , that Reid did not really intend to allow a proper intuitive or presentative Per- ception , and that he only abusively gave the name of immediate knowledge to the simplest form of the representative theory ...
... favour of Brown's conclusion , that Reid did not really intend to allow a proper intuitive or presentative Per- ception , and that he only abusively gave the name of immediate knowledge to the simplest form of the representative theory ...
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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.