The History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance: Materialism in antiquityHoughton, Osgood, 1879 - Materialism |
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... method which rests one hypothesis upon another still more general , until at last the highest cer- tainty is found in what is most abstract . Aristotle we have to thank for the juggle between the potential and the actual , and the fancy ...
... method which rests one hypothesis upon another still more general , until at last the highest cer- tainty is found in what is most abstract . Aristotle we have to thank for the juggle between the potential and the actual , and the fancy ...
Page 68
... method - the use of definitions and induction . Both , as methods of dialectic , turn upon universals ; and the art of discussion , in which Sokrates was a master , consisted chiefly in the sure and skilful reference of the single case ...
... method - the use of definitions and induction . Both , as methods of dialectic , turn upon universals ; and the art of discussion , in which Sokrates was a master , consisted chiefly in the sure and skilful reference of the single case ...
Page 70
... method which shall be capable of discerning true from seeming knowledge . Criticisin therefore , as opposed to scepticism , is the function of this method ; and in the vindication of criticism as the instrument of science we have at ...
... method which shall be capable of discerning true from seeming knowledge . Criticisin therefore , as opposed to scepticism , is the function of this method ; and in the vindication of criticism as the instrument of science we have at ...
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... method . An adequate scientific knowledge of the absolutely transcendental is impos . sible , and modern systems which calls up the phantom of an intellectual knowledge of transcendental things , are in truth no whit higher in this ...
... method . An adequate scientific knowledge of the absolutely transcendental is impos . sible , and modern systems which calls up the phantom of an intellectual knowledge of transcendental things , are in truth no whit higher in this ...
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... method of working of course only paradoxical re- sults could follow . The name is made a thing , but a thing having no similarity with any other thing , and to which , in the nature of human thought , only negative predicates can be ...
... method of working of course only paradoxical re- sults could follow . The name is made a thing , but a thing having no similarity with any other thing , and to which , in the nature of human thought , only negative predicates can be ...
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Page 186 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire. Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Page 186 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 276 - I perceived it to be possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life; and instead of the speculative philosophy usually taught in the schools, to discover a practical philosophy, by means of which, knowing the force and action of fire, water, air, the stars, the heavens, and all the other bodies that surround us...
Page 284 - Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, religion; not allowed, superstition.
Page 186 - The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Page 248 - Rome; et je confesse que, s'il est faux, tous les fondements de ma Philosophie le sont aussi, car il se démontre par eux évidemment. Et il est tellement lié avec toutes les parties de mon Traité, que je ne l'en saurais détacher, sans rendre le reste tout défectueux.
Page 130 - When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon earth crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals...
Page 147 - ... .Now no more shall thy house admit thee with glad welcome, nor a most virtuous wife and sweet children run to be the first to snatch kisses and touch thy heart with a silent joy. No more mayst thou be prosperous in thy doings, a safeguard to thine own. One disastrous day has taken from thee luckless man in luckless wise all the many prizes of life'.
Page 139 - For verily not by design did the first-beginnings of things station themselves each in its right place by keen intelligence, nor did they bargain sooth to say what motions each should assume, but because the first-beginnings of things many in number in many ways impelled by blows for infinite ages back and kept in motion by their own weights have been wont to be carried along and to unite in all manner of ways and thoroughly to test every kind of production possible by their mutual combinations,...