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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... words touching the state and relations of philosophy in France . After the philosophy of Descartes and Malebranche had sunk into oblivion , and from the time that Condillac , exaggerating the too partial principles of Locke , had ...
... words touching the state and relations of philosophy in France . After the philosophy of Descartes and Malebranche had sunk into oblivion , and from the time that Condillac , exaggerating the too partial principles of Locke , had ...
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... words in vindication of our employment of these terms . By the Greeks the word vжоkelμevov was equivocally employed to express either the object of knowledge , ( the materia circa quam , ) or the subject of existence , ( the materia in ...
... words in vindication of our employment of these terms . By the Greeks the word vжоkelμevov was equivocally employed to express either the object of knowledge , ( the materia circa quam , ) or the subject of existence , ( the materia in ...
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... words have in this country re - entered on their ancient rights ; they are now in common use . ] * [ This line ... word in German ought to have been " intellectuale . " 2 ° , In phi- losophical consistency the intuition ought not to have ...
... words have in this country re - entered on their ancient rights ; they are now in common use . ] * [ This line ... word in German ought to have been " intellectuale . " 2 ° , In phi- losophical consistency the intuition ought not to have ...
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... words , the first element must manifest itself in the second . The first two Ideas are thus connected together as cause and effect ; each is only realised through the other ; and this their connection or correlation , is the third ...
... words , the first element must manifest itself in the second . The first two Ideas are thus connected together as cause and effect ; each is only realised through the other ; and this their connection or correlation , is the third ...
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... words , the Infinite and the Absolute , properly so called , † are thus equally inconceivable to us . [ The ... word , or conceive the individuals which we represent . In like manner there is no mutual contra- diction between the image ...
... words , the Infinite and the Absolute , properly so called , † are thus equally inconceivable to us . [ The ... word , or conceive the individuals which we represent . In like manner there is no mutual contra- diction between the image ...
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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.