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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... terms as they were employed by the philosophers here commemorated . This unfortunate reversal has been propagated to ... term Understanding , not for the noetic faculty , intellect proper , or place of principles , but for the dianoetic ...
... terms as they were employed by the philosophers here commemorated . This unfortunate reversal has been propagated to ... term Understanding , not for the noetic faculty , intellect proper , or place of principles , but for the dianoetic ...
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... terms . By the Greeks the word vжоkelμevov was equivocally employed to express either the object of knowledge , ( the ... term in Greek . It is probable that the logical application of the word ( subject of attribution or predication ) ...
... terms . By the Greeks the word vжоkelμevov was equivocally employed to express either the object of knowledge , ( the ... term in Greek . It is probable that the logical application of the word ( subject of attribution or predication ) ...
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... terms , Infinite and Absolute , and Unconditioned , ought not to be confounded , and accurately distinguish them in the statement ... term Absolute is of a twofold ( if not threefold ) ambiguity , corresponding to the double ( or treble ) ...
... terms , Infinite and Absolute , and Unconditioned , ought not to be confounded , and accurately distinguish them in the statement ... term Absolute is of a twofold ( if not threefold ) ambiguity , corresponding to the double ( or treble ) ...
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... term ; - it is certainly true that some elements in the one table coincide in name with some elements in the other . This coincidence is , however , only equivocal . In reality , the whole Kantian Categories would be generally excluded ...
... term ; - it is certainly true that some elements in the one table coincide in name with some elements in the other . This coincidence is , however , only equivocal . In reality , the whole Kantian Categories would be generally excluded ...
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... term Category in relation to the Kantian philosophy in the Kantian acceptation , he would be as erroneous in regard to Kant as he is in regard to Aristotle ; but we presume that he wishes , under that term , to include not only the ...
... term Category in relation to the Kantian philosophy in the Kantian acceptation , he would be as erroneous in regard to Kant as he is in regard to Aristotle ; but we presume that he wishes , under that term , to include not only 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.