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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... appear , to some readers , needlessly elementary and scholastic . But those who know in what darkness the nature of our knowledge , and of the processes by which it is obtained , is often involved by a confused apprehen- sion of the ...
... appear , to some readers , needlessly elementary and scholastic . But those who know in what darkness the nature of our knowledge , and of the processes by which it is obtained , is often involved by a confused apprehen- sion of the ...
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... appear to ourselves to be more directly conscious , than the distance of an object from us . Yet it has long been ascertained , that what is perceived by the eye , is at most nothing more than a variously coloured surface ; that when we ...
... appear to ourselves to be more directly conscious , than the distance of an object from us . Yet it has long been ascertained , that what is perceived by the eye , is at most nothing more than a variously coloured surface ; that when we ...
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... appears unexceptionable . Names , indeed , do much more than this ; but whatever else they do , grows out of , and is the result of this : as will appear in its proper place . Are names more properly said to be the names of things , or ...
... appears unexceptionable . Names , indeed , do much more than this ; but whatever else they do , grows out of , and is the result of this : as will appear in its proper place . Are names more properly said to be the names of things , or ...
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... appear hereafter . The word man , therefore , signifies all these attributes , and all subjects which possess these attributes . But it can be predicated- only of the subjects . What we call men , are the subjects , the individual ...
... appear hereafter . The word man , therefore , signifies all these attributes , and all subjects which possess these attributes . But it can be predicated- only of the subjects . What we call men , are the subjects , the individual ...
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... appears from the context that the army meant is that which name , 22 name itself imports ( among other things ) that there can be only one such person at a time . This being the case , and the application of the name being afterwards ...
... appears from the context that the army meant is that which name , 22 name itself imports ( among other things ) that there can be only one such person at a time . This being the case , and the application of the name being afterwards ...
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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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