Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform: Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review; Cor., Vindicated, Enl., in Notes and Appendices |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page vi
... thought of . - The principal additions will be found under Philosophy , especially in the Philosophical and Logical Appendices ; little has been introduced on Litera- ture ; and , except a few vindicatory or expository notes and some ...
... thought of . - The principal additions will be found under Philosophy , especially in the Philosophical and Logical Appendices ; little has been introduced on Litera- ture ; and , except a few vindicatory or expository notes and some ...
Page 3
... thought a secretion of the brain . A doctrine so melancholy in its consequences , and founded on principles thus partial and exaggerated , could not be permanent : a reaction was inevitable . The recoil , which began about twenty years ...
... thought a secretion of the brain . A doctrine so melancholy in its consequences , and founded on principles thus partial and exaggerated , could not be permanent : a reaction was inevitable . The recoil , which began about twenty years ...
Page 7
... thought , in neither list are these elements naturally co - arranged , or reduced to an ultimate simplicity . The ... thought , & c .; ( we would briefly call it the Unconditioned . ) - The second , he denominates plurality , difference ...
... thought , in neither list are these elements naturally co - arranged , or reduced to an ultimate simplicity . The ... thought , & c .; ( we would briefly call it the Unconditioned . ) - The second , he denominates plurality , difference ...
Page 12
... thought . These opinions may be reduced to four.- , The Unconditioned is incognisable and inconceivable ; its notion being only negative of the Conditioned , which last can alone be positively known or conceived . 2 It is not an object ...
... thought . These opinions may be reduced to four.- , The Unconditioned is incognisable and inconceivable ; its notion being only negative of the Conditioned , which last can alone be positively known or conceived . 2 It is not an object ...
Page 13
... thought of finite wholes , which would itself require an infinite time for its accomplish- ment ; nor , for the same reason , can we follow out in thought an infinite divisibility of parts . The result is the same , whether we apply the ...
... thought of finite wholes , which would itself require an infinite time for its accomplish- ment ; nor , for the same reason , can we follow out in thought an infinite divisibility of parts . The result is the same , whether we apply the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolute academical admitted afford ancient Aristotle Arts asserts attempt body Buschius Cambridge Church College competent conceived condition consciousness consequently consistories constitution Crotus Cullen cultivation degree Descartes divine doctrine Dr Whewell Edinburgh Eobanus Epistolæ Erasmus established examination exclusively exercise existence fact faculties favour former German highest honour Hutten hypothesis ignorance instruction intellectual intelligence knowledge laws of thought learned lectures Leibnitz less letters logic logicians Malebranche mathematical mathematician matter mean ment mind moral nature necessary necessity object observation opinion Organon original Oxford patronage perception phænomena phænomenon philosophy Plato practice predicate present principle Professor proposition quod reasoning regard Reid Reuchlin schools Scotland seminaries Sir Robert Inglis speculation statutes supposed syllogism term theology theory things thought tion truth Tutors University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Oxford whilst whole wholly words
Popular passages
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.