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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... former . - But since the former edition was published , there has appeared the " Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state , discipline , studies , and revenues of the University and Colleges of Oxford ...
... former . - But since the former edition was published , there has appeared the " Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state , discipline , studies , and revenues of the University and Colleges of Oxford ...
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... former are results a posteriori - the creations of abstraction and generalisation ; the latter , anticipations a priori -the conditions of those acts themselves . It is true , that as the one scheme exhibits the unity of thought ...
... former are results a posteriori - the creations of abstraction and generalisation ; the latter , anticipations a priori -the conditions of those acts themselves . It is true , that as the one scheme exhibits the unity of thought ...
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... former , if the Infinite were not excluded , on what would rest the scholastic distinction of ens categoricum and ens transcendens ? The logicians require that predicamental matter shall be of a limited and finite nature ; + God , as ...
... former , if the Infinite were not excluded , on what would rest the scholastic distinction of ens categoricum and ens transcendens ? The logicians require that predicamental matter shall be of a limited and finite nature ; + God , as ...
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... former is logically simple , as only contemplative : the lat- ter logically complex , as both representative , and contemplative of the representation . - In the one , the object is single , and the word univocal : in the other it is ...
... former is logically simple , as only contemplative : the lat- ter logically complex , as both representative , and contemplative of the representation . - In the one , the object is single , and the word univocal : in the other it is ...
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... former . And here , the mind either knows the reality of what it represents , or it does not . - On the prior alternative , the hypothesis under discussion would annihi- late itself , in annihilating the ground of its utility . For as ...
... former . And here , the mind either knows the reality of what it represents , or it does not . - On the prior alternative , the hypothesis under discussion would annihi- late itself , in annihilating the ground of its utility . For as ...
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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.