 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1770 - 604 pages
...generally ufed, and explains more particularly that fenfe in ;which he propofes to ufe them. — Rcofon is that faculty which enables us, from relations or...inveftigate fuch as are unknown ; and without which we never would pro* oeed in the difcovery of truth afingle ftep beyond firft principle! or intuitive axioms.... | |
 | Robert Eden Scott - 1805 - 500 pages
...nually act in fubordination. ' (fiffay on Truth, part 1. c.1.) He had before defined Reafon to be * that faculty which enables us, * from relations or...that are known, to ' inveftigate fuch as are unknown ; ' by which he plainly confines it to what has more ufually been called reasoning. This faculty he... | |
 | Sir James Steuart - 1805 - 418 pages
...following définition of reafon ; namely, " That faculty which enables us, from relations " or ideas which are known, to inveftigate fuch as *' are unknown ; and without which we never " could proceed, in thé difcovery of truth, a fingle " ftep beyond firft principles or intuitive axioms. « And *' And... | |
 | Robert Eden Scott - 1805 - 524 pages
...conti* nually act in fubordination. ' (EfTay on Truth, part ici) He had before defined Reafon to be ' that faculty which enables us, * from relations or ideas that are known, to c inveftigate fuch as are unknown ; ' by which he plainly confines it to what has more ufually been... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1806 - 578 pages
...laws of our constitution. The faculty by which we perceive truths of the first kind, is Reason, or " that •" faculty which enables us, from relations or ideas that are known, to inves" tigate such as are unknown, and without which we never could proceed in "the discovery of truth... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 400 pages
...we are convinced, that a relation belongs to two ideas, oh account of our having found, that these ideas bear certain relations to other ideas. In a...enables us, from relations or ideas that are known, to investigate such as are unknown ; and without which we never could proceed in the dis\/ covery of truth... | |
 | Sir William Forbes, James Beattie - 1807 - 572 pages
...laws of our constitution. The faculty by which we perceive truths of the first kind, is Reason, or " that " faculty which enables us, from relations or ideas that are known, to inves" tigate such as are unknown, and without which we never could proceed in "the discovery of truth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...we arc convinced, " that a relation belongs to two ideas, on account of our having found that these ideas " bear certain relations to other ideas. In...enables us, " from relations or ideas that are known, to investigate such as are unknown, and withhas been very seldom used by philosophical writers, or indeed... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...relation belongs to two ideas, on account of our having found that these ideas bear certain relationi to other ideas. In a word, it is that faculty which...enables us, from relations or ideas that are known, to investigate such as are unknown ; and without which we never could proceed in the discovery of truth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...relation belongs to two ideas, " on account of our having found that these ideas bear certain rela" tions to other ideas. In a word, it is that faculty which...enables us, " from relations or ideas that are known, to investigate such as are " unknown ; and without which we never could proceed in the dis" covery of... | |
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Reason, as implying a faculty not marked by any other name, is used by those who are most accurate in distinguishing, to signify that power of the human mind by which we draw inferences, or by which we are convinced, that a relation belongs to two ideas,... 
