An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy: And of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His WritingsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 650 páginas |
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... Attributes which we ascribe to out- ward things , or such at least as are inseparable from them in thought , contain , it is affirmed , other elements , over and above sensations plus an unknowable cause . These additional elements are ...
... Attributes which we ascribe to out- ward things , or such at least as are inseparable from them in thought , contain , it is affirmed , other elements , over and above sensations plus an unknowable cause . These additional elements are ...
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... attributes not necessary to be here enumerated ) , we are ascribing to it properties which do not exist in the Thing itself , but with which it is clothed by the laws of our conceptive faculty - properties not of the Things , but of our ...
... attributes not necessary to be here enumerated ) , we are ascribing to it properties which do not exist in the Thing itself , but with which it is clothed by the laws of our conceptive faculty - properties not of the Things , but of our ...
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... attributes or properties to them , provided these are always conceived as relative to us . If a thing produces effects of which our sight , hearing , or touch can take cognisance , it follows , and indeed is but the same statement in ...
... attributes or properties to them , provided these are always conceived as relative to us . If a thing produces effects of which our sight , hearing , or touch can take cognisance , it follows , and indeed is but the same statement in ...
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... attributes of matter objec- tively existing ; " and if it is not to be endured that matter should " sink into something unknown and problematical , " whose existence " can be only precari- 66 ously affirmed as the occult cause or ...
... attributes of matter objec- tively existing ; " and if it is not to be endured that matter should " sink into something unknown and problematical , " whose existence " can be only precari- 66 ously affirmed as the occult cause or ...
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... attributes : we " become " aware of their incomprehensible existence only as this " is revealed to us through certain qualities . " 66 And when he adds , " which qualities , again , we cannot think as unconditioned , irrelative ...
... attributes : we " become " aware of their incomprehensible existence only as this " is revealed to us through certain qualities . " 66 And when he adds , " which qualities , again , we cannot think as unconditioned , irrelative ...
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