On Truth: A Systematic InquiryKegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889 - 580 pagini |
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... physical science with its eager spirit of inquiry . Questions more and more fundamental concerning each branch of physical science naturally lead to questions which underlie all physical science . This impulse has been keenly felt by ...
... physical science with its eager spirit of inquiry . Questions more and more fundamental concerning each branch of physical science naturally lead to questions which underlie all physical science . This impulse has been keenly felt by ...
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... along our nervous system varies according to circumstances , and is always very slow compared with the transit of some physical forces , such as electricity , light , etc. In fact , without trusting memory we could never be 32 ON TRUTH .
... along our nervous system varies according to circumstances , and is always very slow compared with the transit of some physical forces , such as electricity , light , etc. In fact , without trusting memory we could never be 32 ON TRUTH .
Pagina 34
... physical science . What experiments , what inductions can prove anything if , when we have made them , we cannot be sure such experi- ments were ever carried on or such inductions drawn ? As has been pointed out a short time ago , even ...
... physical science . What experiments , what inductions can prove anything if , when we have made them , we cannot be sure such experi- ments were ever carried on or such inductions drawn ? As has been pointed out a short time ago , even ...
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... of a ready answer : It is quite true that we never see or feel physical causation itself , for the very good reason that it is invisible and intangible . But although our senses cannot perceive it , our intellect may ; 50 ON TRUTH .
... of a ready answer : It is quite true that we never see or feel physical causation itself , for the very good reason that it is invisible and intangible . But although our senses cannot perceive it , our intellect may ; 50 ON TRUTH .
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... physical science , have not only professed to doubt this , but have even positively denied either that any independent world exists at all , or that its existence can , by any possibility , be known to us . These leaders of thought have ...
... physical science , have not only professed to doubt this , but have even positively denied either that any independent world exists at all , or that its existence can , by any possibility , be known to us . These leaders of thought have ...
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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