Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, Volumen2

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Gould and Lincoln, 1860
 

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Página 302 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Página 126 - Men having been accustomed from their cradles to learn words, which are easily got and retained, before they knew, or had framed, the complex ideas to which they were annexed, or which were to be found in the things they were thought to stand for, they usually continue to do so all their lives; and without taking the pains necessary to settle in their minds determined ideas, they use their words for such unsteady and confused notions as they have, contenting themselves with the same words other people...
Página 491 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Página 126 - Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without much troubling their heads about a certain fixed meaning...
Página 384 - 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.
Página 123 - I believe every one who examines the situation of his mind in reasoning will agree with me that we do not annex distinct and complete ideas to every term we make use of, and that in talking of government, church, negotiation, conquest, we seldom spread out in our minds all the simple ideas of which these complex ones are composed.
Página 221 - ... and it is only under the character of a constituted or containing whole, or of a constituting or contained part, that any thing can become the term of a logical argumentation.
Página 491 - Some books are to tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 479 - By mutual confidence, and mutual aid, Great deeds are done, and great discoveries made . The wise new prudence from the wise acquire And one brave hero fans another's fire.
Página 154 - ... and from the parts to the whole, in the quantity 5 ° siai " a ' of extension, or from the whole to the parts and from the parts to the whole, in the quantity of comprehension.

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