English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesP.F. Collier, 1910 - 445 Seiten |
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... events , as bear little analogy to the common course of nature , are also readily confessed to be known only by experience ; nor does any man imagine that the explosion of gunpowder , or the attraction of a load- stone , could ever be ...
... events , as bear little analogy to the common course of nature , are also readily confessed to be known only by experience ; nor does any man imagine that the explosion of gunpowder , or the attraction of a load- stone , could ever be ...
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... event , in order to pro- nounce with certainty concerning it . Such is the influence of custom , that , where it is strongest , it not only covers our natural ignorance , but even conceals itself , and seems not to take place , merely ...
... event , in order to pro- nounce with certainty concerning it . Such is the influence of custom , that , where it is strongest , it not only covers our natural ignorance , but even conceals itself , and seems not to take place , merely ...
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... event from its cause . It could not , therefore , be discovered in the cause , and the first invention or conception of it , a priori , must be entirely arbitrary . And even after it is suggested , the con- junction of it with the cause ...
... event from its cause . It could not , therefore , be discovered in the cause , and the first invention or conception of it , a priori , must be entirely arbitrary . And even after it is suggested , the con- junction of it with the cause ...
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... event . Now where is that process of reasoning which , from one instance , draws a conclusion , so different from that which it infers from a hundred instances that are nowise different from that single one ? This question I propose as ...
... event . Now where is that process of reasoning which , from one instance , draws a conclusion , so different from that which it infers from a hundred instances that are nowise different from that single one ? This question I propose as ...
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... event following another ; but he would not be able to discover anything farther . He would not , at first , by any reasoning , be able to reach the idea of cause and effect ; since the particular powers , by which all natural operations ...
... event following another ; but he would not be able to discover anything farther . He would not , at first , by any reasoning , be able to reach the idea of cause and effect ; since the particular powers , by which all natural operations ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
able actions appear argument believe betimes body cause ceived cerning child colours conceive concerning conclusion confess connexion consequently consider contrary corporeal substance costiveness course of nature custom degree deny dispute distinct doth doubt effect endeavour enquiry Epicurus event evident existence experience external farther fault gentleman GEORGE BERKELEY give hath human Hylas ideas imagine immediately perceived inclination infer infinite divisibility instance Julius Cæsar kind knowledge language Latin Malebranche mankind manner matter mean mind miracle motion natural philosophy nature never objects observation occasion operations opinion pain parents particular passion perceived by sense PHIL Philonous philosophers pleasure present pretend principles reason scepticism sensation sensible qualities sensible things sentiment shew speak spirits substance substratum suppose sure taught teach temper thought THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION tion truth tutor understand us'd virtue wherein whilst words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 401 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...
Seite 445 - When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Seite 374 - These records of wars, intrigues, factions, and revolutions, are so many collections of experiments, by which the politician or moral philosopher fixes the principles of his science, in the same manner as the physician or natural philosopher becomes acquainted with the nature of plants, minerals, and other external objects, by the experiments which he forms concerning them.
Seite 397 - I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.
Seite 436 - Berkeley; and indeed most of the writings of that very ingenious author form the best lessons of scepticism, which are to be found either among the ancient or modern philosophers, Bayle not excepted.
Seite 368 - Suitably to this experience, therefore, we may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second. Or in other words where, if the first object had not been, the second never had existed.
Seite 412 - ... no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.
Seite 433 - It seems evident that men are carried by a natural instinct or prepossession to repose faith in their senses, and that without any reasoning, or even almost before the use of reason, we always suppose an external universe which depends not on our perception but would exist though we and every sensible creature were absent or annihilated.
Seite 356 - When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connection ; any quality which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other. We only find that the one does actually in fact follow the other.
Seite 48 - ... it. For, in many cases, all that we can do, or should aim at, is, to make the best of what nature has given, to prevent the vices and faults to which such a constitution is most inclined, and give it all the advantages it is capable of. Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as it could ; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain ; and what is so plaistered on will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint...