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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... supposed truth , which is really the result of a very rapid in- ference , may seem to be apprehended intuitively . It has long been agreed by thinkers of the most opposite schools , that this mistake is actually made in so familiar an ...
... supposed truth , which is really the result of a very rapid in- ference , may seem to be apprehended intuitively . It has long been agreed by thinkers of the most opposite schools , that this mistake is actually made in so familiar an ...
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... supposed to be somewhat like the primitive one . The word , however , is just as properly two names instead of one , in this case , as in that of the most perfect ambiguity . And one of the com- monest forms of fallacious reasoning ...
... supposed to be somewhat like the primitive one . The word , however , is just as properly two names instead of one , in this case , as in that of the most perfect ambiguity . And one of the com- monest forms of fallacious reasoning ...
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... supposed to mean a substance . There seems a kind of contradiction in using such an expression as that one thing is merely an attribute of another thing . And the announce- ment of a Classification of Things would , I believe , prepare ...
... supposed to mean a substance . There seems a kind of contradiction in using such an expression as that one thing is merely an attribute of another thing . And the announce- ment of a Classification of Things would , I believe , prepare ...
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... supposed direct perception of external objects . James Mill ) a certain " thread of consciousness ; a series of feelings , that is , of sensations , thoughts , emo- tions , and volitions , more or less numerous and complicated . There ...
... supposed direct perception of external objects . James Mill ) a certain " thread of consciousness ; a series of feelings , that is , of sensations , thoughts , emo- tions , and volitions , more or less numerous and complicated . There ...
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... supposed throughout as the causes by which some of those states of consciousness are excited , and minds as the subjects by which all of them are experienced , but neither the external objects nor the minds making their existence known ...
... supposed throughout as the causes by which some of those states of consciousness are excited , and minds as the subjects by which all of them are experienced , but neither the external objects nor the minds making their existence known ...
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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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