The logic of names, an intr. to Boole's Laws of thought1869 |
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The Logic of Names, an Intr. to Boole's Laws of Thought I P Hughlings Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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abstract adjective afferent nerve angles animal Archbishop Thomson attributes body Cæsar called cerebral hemispheres class names common language common name compound name compound sensation concept connection connotation constitute copula defined definition distinction distinguished division Dugald Stewart Edition efferent Electric Telegraph elementary elements exhibit existence expression facts of consciousness Gauls Grammar group of sensations guage Hartley Hughlings Illustrations individual infima Jevons LARDNER LAWS OF THOUGHT logic of names logical equality logical name logical relation logical whole logically multiplied logicians Mathematical matter Max Müller meaning mental mind Natural Philosophy negative name negative proposition nervous action nervous centre noun numerical value object particular perception philosopher Physiology pound name predicate pronominal proper name provisional proximate genus re-excited sation sense sentence separate signified simple name simple sensations Sir William Hamilton Small 8vo speech stands star supposed thing tion triangle unit term University College words
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Página 12 - It may be laid down as a rule, that if any two mental states be called up together or in succession 'with due frequency and vividness, the subsequent production of the one of them will suffice to call up the other, and that whether we desire it or not...
Página 83 - Let us conceive, then, of an Algebra in which the symbols x, y, z, &c. admit indifferently of the values 0 and 1, and of these values alone. The laws, the axioms, and the processes, of such an Algebra will be identical in their whole extent with the laws, the axioms, and the processes of an Algebra of Logic.
Página 5 - Whether we consider the liberality and beauty of the Illustrations, the charm of the writing; or the durable interest of the matter, we must express our belief that there is hardly to be found...
Página 25 - It is the same with all nouns. They all express originally one out of the many attributes of a thing, and that attribute, whether it be a quality or an action, is necessarily a general idea. The word thus formed was in the first instance intended for one object only, though of course it was almost immediately extended to the whole class to which this object seemed to belong.
Página 5 - The Planets ; are they inhabited Worlds ? — Weather Prognostics — Popular Fallacies in Questions of Physical Science — Latitudes and Longitudes — Lunar Influences — Meteoric Stones and Shooting Stars — Railway Accidents — Light — Common Things: — Air — Locomotion in the United States — Cometary Influences — Common Things: Water— The Potter's Art— Common Things: Fire — Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress — The Moon— Common Things : The Earth—...
Página 5 - Instinct and Intelligence — The Solar Microscope — The Camera Lucida — The Magic Lantern — The Camera Obscura — The Microscope — The White Ants : their Manners and Habits — The Surface of the Earth, or First Notions of Geography — Science and Poetry — The Bee — Steam Navigation — Electro-Motive Power — Thunder, Lightning, and the Aurora Borealis — The Printing Press— The Crust of the Earth— Comets— The Stereoscope — The Pre-Adamite Earth — Eclipses — Sound. With...
Página 4 - Lavoisier oelongt) the noble initiation of the work ; to Davy, its splendid prosecution ; to Liebig, its glorious consummation. Embracing in his masterly induction the results of all foregone and contemporary investigation, and supplying its large defects by his own incomparable researches, Liebig has built up on imperishable foundations, as a connected whole, the code of simple general laws on which regenerated agriculture must henceforth for all time repose.
Página 9 - But he cannot repeat such words and phrases at his own wish or at the desire of others. And as he is able to copy writing, so he can, when circumstances dictate, as it were, to him, give utterance to phrases of more special applicability. Thus, a child being in danger of falling, one speechless patient, a woman, was surprised into exclaiming,
Página 10 - We make use of the name commonly given to the notion as a symbol, even for ourselves, of all the properties it possesses. A name then, employed in thought, is called a symbolical cognition; and the names we employ in speech are not always symbols to another of what is explicitly understood by us, but quite as often are symbols both to speaker and hearer, the full and exact meaning of which neither of them stop to unfold, any more than they regularly reflect that every sovereign which passes through...