... and observing a constant change of its ideas, sometimes by the impression of outward objects on the senses, and sometimes by the determination of its own choice; and concluding, from what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes... Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic - الصفحة 174بواسطة Sir William Hamilton - 1865عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| James McCosh - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will be made for the future in the same things by like agents and by the like ways...possibility of making that change, and so comes by that idea we call power." He concludes, but from what premises he does not tell us, and from this theory he cannot... | |
| Mattoon Monroe Curtis - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...been, that the like changes will, for the future be made in the same things by like agents, and by like ways, considers in one thing the possibility...change; and so comes by that idea which we call power." (II. 21; I. II. 23; 7.) Here is an idea which can neither be resolved into sensation and reflection,... | |
| James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...it, is not altogether perspicuous. By observing changes in all sorts of objects we get to 'consider in one thing the possibility of having any of its...another the possibility of making that change'; and this possibility of changing or being changed is power, active or passive. Thus, for instance, fire... | |
| Church congress - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like agencies will for the future be made in the same things by like agents and by the like ways,...in another the possibility of making that change." So we come to the idea of what we call Power. " Thus," he says, " fire has a power to melt gold, and... | |
| Thomas Fowler - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will for the future be made, in the same things, by like agents, and by the like ways,...possibility of making that change ; and so comes by the idea which we call Power. Thus we say, fire has a power to melt gold, ie to destroy the consistency... | |
| John Locke - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will for the future be made in the same things by like agents, and by the like ways;...power." Thus we say, fire has a power to melt gold ; ie, to destroy the consistency of its insensible parts, and consequently its hardness, and make it... | |
| John Locke - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will for the future be made in the same things by like agents, and by the like ways;...power." Thus we say, fire has a power to melt gold ; ie, to destroy the consistency of its insensible parts, and consequently its hardness, and make it... | |
| Arthur Joseph de Sopper - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will for the future be made in the same things, by like agents, and by the like ways,...power. Thus we say, Fire has a power to melt gold (active power)....; and gold has a power to be melted (passive power)" 1). Even gemakkelijk meent hij... | |
| James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 932
...what it has so ronfltantly observed to have been, that the like changes will for the future be made in the same things, by like agents, and by the like ways...change : and so comes by that idea which we call power. . . . The power we consider is in reference to the change of perceivable ideas ; for we cannot observe-... | |
| 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 44
...what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will for the future be made in the same things, by like agents, and by the like ways,...power. Thus, we say, Fire has a power to melt gold . . . and gold has a power to be melted; that the sun has a power to blanch wax, and wax a power to... | |
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