Abridgment of Mental Philosophy: Including the Three Departments of the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will. Designed as a Text-book for Academies and High Schools |
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... ideas 78. Instances of particular abstract ideas 79. Mental process in separating and abstracting them 80. General abstract notions the same with genera and species 81. Process in classification , or the forming of genera and species 82 ...
... ideas 78. Instances of particular abstract ideas 79. Mental process in separating and abstracting them 80. General abstract notions the same with genera and species 81. Process in classification , or the forming of genera and species 82 ...
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... idea of power . 119. Of the ideas of right and wrong 120. Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit 121. Of other elements of knowledge developed in suggestion 122. Suggestion a source of principles as well as of ideas Page 120 121 ...
... idea of power . 119. Of the ideas of right and wrong 120. Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit 121. Of other elements of knowledge developed in suggestion 122. Suggestion a source of principles as well as of ideas Page 120 121 ...
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... ideas and knowledge 175. Definition of reasoning , and of propositions 190 191 176. Process of the mind in all cases of reasoning 192 177. Illustration of the preceding statement 193 178. Grounds of the selection of propositions 194 180 ...
... ideas and knowledge 175. Definition of reasoning , and of propositions 190 191 176. Process of the mind in all cases of reasoning 192 177. Illustration of the preceding statement 193 178. Grounds of the selection of propositions 194 180 ...
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... ideas are then comparatively few in number , but that far the greater proportion of them are suggested by external objects . They are forced upon us by our immediate wants ; they have relation to what we ourselves see , or hear , or ...
... ideas are then comparatively few in number , but that far the greater proportion of them are suggested by external objects . They are forced upon us by our immediate wants ; they have relation to what we ourselves see , or hear , or ...
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... ideas of the human race are its particular conceptions of its nurse and mother ; and the origin and history of all its notions may be traced to its animal wants , to the light that breaks in from its window , and to the few objects in ...
... ideas of the human race are its particular conceptions of its nurse and mother ; and the origin and history of all its notions may be traced to its animal wants , to the light that breaks in from its window , and to the few objects in ...
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