On Truth: A Systematic InquiryKegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889 - 580 pagini |
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Pagina 39
... creature of the very limited powers which man possesses can know such a thing as absolute , necessary , and universal truth . How , it may be asked , Difficulties can a being who , for a few fleeting moments , dwells in an acceptation ...
... creature of the very limited powers which man possesses can know such a thing as absolute , necessary , and universal truth . How , it may be asked , Difficulties can a being who , for a few fleeting moments , dwells in an acceptation ...
Pagina 47
... creatures , it has been said , our geometrical necessary truths would not appear " truths " at all . To such creatures “ a straight line " could not be , as it is for us , the shortest of all lines , and two parallel lines , if ...
... creatures , it has been said , our geometrical necessary truths would not appear " truths " at all . To such creatures “ a straight line " could not be , as it is for us , the shortest of all lines , and two parallel lines , if ...
Pagina 54
... creatures as cattle , beasts of prey , etc. , than it is to any fishes . Even if we are zoological experts , we do not , in saying " A whale is a beast , " distinctly advert in our minds to all those various anatomical conditions which ...
... creatures as cattle , beasts of prey , etc. , than it is to any fishes . Even if we are zoological experts , we do not , in saying " A whale is a beast , " distinctly advert in our minds to all those various anatomical conditions which ...
Pagina 55
... creature cannot have any spinal column in it . " Then it may strike him that naturalists have classed fishes , together with various other animals , in a great group , one character of which is the possession of a spinal column . He ...
... creature cannot have any spinal column in it . " Then it may strike him that naturalists have classed fishes , together with various other animals , in a great group , one character of which is the possession of a spinal column . He ...
Pagina 82
... creatures also affords various instruc- tive instances of scientific prediction . A memorable in- stance of the kind occurred in the career of the great French naturalist , George Cuvier . Amongst the many fossil remains found by him in ...
... creatures also affords various instruc- tive instances of scientific prediction . A memorable in- stance of the kind occurred in the career of the great French naturalist , George Cuvier . Amongst the many fossil remains found by him in ...
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absolutely abstract ideas action activity adverted affirm amongst animals apprehend assertion beauty believe bodily body called carbonic acid causation cause certainty changes chapter colour conception consciousness consentience consider course creatures Demy 8vo deny direct distinct Edition emotions evident existence experience express external fact felt Fuegians fundamental G. H. Lewes groups of feelings human humerus idealism idealists imagination immaterial inference inorganic instinct intel intelligence John Stuart Mill judgment kind knowledge known language law of contradiction less living material matter means mind moral motion natural selection nature never Nevertheless objects organs ourselves oxygen parenchyma perceive phenomena physical science pleasurable possess principle protoplasm qualities reason recognize reflection reflex reflex action relations rience scepticism seen self-evident sensations sensuous Small crown 8vo sounds spinal cord spontaneously substance supposed things thought tion tissue true truth ultimate uncon unconscious unconscious inference unity universe various words