A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific InvestigationLongmans, Green, 1900 - 622 pages |
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... according to some metaphysicians , it is by an act of the mind , similar to perception , except in not being preceded by any sensation , that the existence of God , the soul , and other hyperphysical objects is recognised . These acts ...
... according to some metaphysicians , it is by an act of the mind , similar to perception , except in not being preceded by any sensation , that the existence of God , the soul , and other hyperphysical objects is recognised . These acts ...
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... according , to these metaphysicians , is not any- thing intrinsically different from the sensations which the body is said to produce in us ; it is , in short , a set of sensations , or rather , of possibilities of sensation , joined ...
... according , to these metaphysicians , is not any- thing intrinsically different from the sensations which the body is said to produce in us ; it is , in short , a set of sensations , or rather , of possibilities of sensation , joined ...
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... according to which was adopted and followed up by James Mill , has been further and greatly improved upon in Professor Bain's pro- found work , The Senses and the Intellect , and in the chapters on " Perception " of a work of eminent ...
... according to which was adopted and followed up by James Mill , has been further and greatly improved upon in Professor Bain's pro- found work , The Senses and the Intellect , and in the chapters on " Perception " of a work of eminent ...
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... according to the thing ; and if anything , logic has nothing to do with it , or with the manner in which the knowledge is acquired . With this result we may conclude this portion of our subject , and pass to the third and only re ...
... according to the thing ; and if anything , logic has nothing to do with it , or with the manner in which the knowledge is acquired . With this result we may conclude this portion of our subject , and pass to the third and only re ...
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... according to these writers , are propositions agreeing not in the sub- ject and predicate , but in the subject only . They do not consider " dead , " but " not dead , " to be the predicate of the second proposition , and they ac ...
... according to these writers , are propositions agreeing not in the sub- ject and predicate , but in the subject only . They do not consider " dead , " but " not dead , " to be the predicate of the second proposition , and they ac ...
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affirmed animal antecedent applied Archbishop Whately argument ascer ascertained assertion attri attribute axioms believe body called cause character circumstances co-existence colour common conceive conception conclusion connotation consequent considered copula deductive definition degree denote distinction doctrine duction effect empirical laws ence equal evidence example exist experience expression fact fallacy feelings generalisation genus ground human idea individual induction inference inquiry instance kind knowledge known language laws of causation laws of nature Logic logicians major premise meaning ment mental merely Method of Agreement Method of Difference mind mode motion object observation particular peculiar persons pheno phenomena phenomenon philosophy position possess predicate premises principle produced properties proposition proved ratiocination reason resemblance result scientific sensations sense Sir William Hamilton Socrates species stances substances sufficient supposed syllogism term theory things thought tion true truth uniformity universal universal proposition Whewell word
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