Metaphysical Inquiry Into the MethodW. Pickering, 1833 - 222 من الصفحات |
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... Causation . The great ABUSE OF ANALOGY is rest- ing in its hypotheses , without bring- ing them to the test , building systems upon such hypotheses , and bending the facts to their support . Of this , the Ti- mæus of Plato exhibits a ...
... Causation . The great ABUSE OF ANALOGY is rest- ing in its hypotheses , without bring- ing them to the test , building systems upon such hypotheses , and bending the facts to their support . Of this , the Ti- mæus of Plato exhibits a ...
الصفحة 57
... Causation . And it is one of the most common errors of the philosophy of the present day to con- found the second great branch of natural history with causation . Causation , how- ever , is a distinct , and strict object of ...
... Causation . And it is one of the most common errors of the philosophy of the present day to con- found the second great branch of natural history with causation . Causation , how- ever , is a distinct , and strict object of ...
الصفحة 58
... Causation is the investigation of the Causes which produce these pheno- mena , of the manner in which they are produced , and the purposes for which they are produced . The two sciences go hand in hand . By the extension of Natural ...
... Causation is the investigation of the Causes which produce these pheno- mena , of the manner in which they are produced , and the purposes for which they are produced . The two sciences go hand in hand . By the extension of Natural ...
الصفحة 59
Isaac Preston Cory. Causation is involved in great obscurity . But I conceive , that this arises chiefly from a confusion of words : and , that by the introduction and improper use of certain terms , and too great a ... CAUSATION . 59.
Isaac Preston Cory. Causation is involved in great obscurity . But I conceive , that this arises chiefly from a confusion of words : and , that by the introduction and improper use of certain terms , and too great a ... CAUSATION . 59.
الصفحة 61
... as implying nothing more than an antecedent phenomenon these phenomena , under the names of Cause and Effect , are supposed to be continued in an endless chain of succes- and sive conjunctions . Brown is of this opinion , and CAUSATION .
... as implying nothing more than an antecedent phenomenon these phenomena , under the names of Cause and Effect , are supposed to be continued in an endless chain of succes- and sive conjunctions . Brown is of this opinion , and CAUSATION .
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18th dynasty according Ægyptus Amenoph Amun analogy ancient antecedent appears Aristotle Armais attributes Bocchoris body Brahma called Causation chain colour conceive connexion Damascius Danaus deity Diodorus divine doctrine earth efficient cause Egyptian emblems Eratosthenes Ether evidently examination experiments Fire fluid force Frag fragments gods Gravity Greek Heathen Hermes Herodotus Horapollo hypothesis Induction inference inquiry Intellect investigation Israelites Joseph Khem Kneph laws light Manetho material matter Memphite Menes ments metaphysical Metis monuments Moris Moses motion nature Nitocris object observed opinion originally Orphic Osiris Osirtesen perhaps Phanes Pharaoh phenomena philosophers Phoenix Phthah physical Plato plenum Plutarch present principles proceeding Protogonus Ramesses Ramesses II reason regarded reign respect says Sesostris Sethos Shepherd kings Shishak signet similar Siva soul species substance supposed Syncellus tablet Theban things Thoth Thothmos tion triad truth universe vacuum Vahan vibration Vishnu word
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الصفحة 140 - It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if Gravitation in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
الصفحة 187 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
الصفحة 1 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
الصفحة 90 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
الصفحة 76 - Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field ; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
الصفحة 140 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of...
الصفحة 42 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, ° he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
الصفحة 13 - This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom.
الصفحة 184 - For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes; and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.
الصفحة 46 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.