Prolegomena Logica: An Inquiry Into the Psychological Character of Logical ProcessesGould and Lincoln, 1860 - 291 páginas |
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act of thought actual analytical antecedent applicable Aristotle ARNOLD GUYOT assertion Atheism attributes axioms causality cause character cloth coëxisting conceive conception conclusion consciousness consequence constitution Contradiction copula definition Descartes determined distinct distinguished edition Essay exhibited existence experience fact faculties former furnish Geometry given Hamilton Hegel human hypothesis hypothetical Hypothetical Syllogism idea identical imagination implies individual Induction inference Kant language laws of thought limited Logic logician Logik Maine de Biran material matter ment mental Metaphysics mind moral nature necessity negative notion observed octavo operations Organon Pantheism perceived perception phenomena philosophy physical positive possible predicate premise present principle of causality Principle of Identity proposition province psychological pure thinking Puritan Recorder quæ question reasoning regarded Reid relation representative sensation sense sensible Sir William Hamilton space substance supposed syllogism term theory things tion triangle true universal volition whole καὶ
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Página 38 - I find, indeed, I have a faculty of imagining, or representing, to myself the ideas of those particular things I have perceived, and of variously compounding and dividing them.
Página 262 - When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view...
Página 46 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned; nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there...
Página 69 - Proper names are not connotative: they denote the individuals who are called by them; but they do not indicate or imply any attributes as belonging to those individuals.
Página 78 - No man can have in his mind an image of infinite magnitude; nor conceive infinite swiftness, infinite time, or infinite force, or infinite power. When we say anything is infinite, we signify only that we are not able to conceive the ends and bounds of the thing named, having no conception of the thing, but of our own inability.
Página 119 - It will be urged that thus much at least is true, to wit, that we take away all corporeal substances. To this my answer is, that if the word substance...
Página 39 - ... so far as I can comprehend, not consisting in the absolute, positive nature or conception of anything, but in the relation it bears to the particulars signified or represented by it; by virtue whereof...