The Essentials of Philosophy: Wherein Its Constituent Principles are Traced Throughout the Various Departments of Science : with Analytical Strictures on the Views of Some of Our Leading PhilosophersT & T Clark, 1859 - 260 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 240 - But neither can this be said ; for though we give the materialists their external bodies, they by their own confession are never the nearer knowing how our ideas are produced: since they own themselves unable to comprehend in what manner body can act upon spirit, or how it is possible it should imprint any idea in the mind.
الصفحة 31 - We cannot know, we cannot think a thing, except under the attribute of existence; we cannot know or think a thing to exist, except as in time; and we cannot know or think a thing to exist in time, and think it absolutely to commence. Now this at once imposes on us the judgment of causality.
الصفحة 240 - That number is entirely the creature of the mind, even though the other qualities be allowed to exist without, will be evident to whoever considers that the same thing bears a different denomination of number as the mind views it with different respects. Thus, the same extension is one, or three, or thirty-six, according as the mind considers it with reference to a yard, a foot, or an inch.
الصفحة 186 - ... with the secret powers of nourishment and support. For otherwise we could infer these secret powers from the first appearance of these sensible qualities, without the...
الصفحة 23 - The phenomenon is this :—When aware of a new appearance, ' we are unable to conceive that therein has originated any new existence, and are, therefore, constrained to think, that what now appears to us under a new form, had previously an existence under others. These others (for they are always plural) are called its cause...
الصفحة 50 - How the will can possibly be free, must remain to us, under the present limitation of our faculties, wholly incomprehensible.
الصفحة 38 - Now, can we construe it to thought, that the moment after the universe flashed into material reality, into manifested being, there was a larger complement of existence in the universe and its Author together, than, the moment before, there subsisted in the Deity alone ? This we are unable to imagine.
الصفحة 246 - Again, I ask whether those supposed originals, or external things, of which our ideas are the pictures or representations, be themselves perceivable or no? If they are, then they are ideas, and we have gained our point : but if you say they are not, I appeal to any one whether it be sense to assert a colour is like something which is invisible; hard or soft, like something which is intangible; and so of the rest.
الصفحة 38 - On the contrary, creation is conceived, and is by us conceivable, only as the evolution of existence from possibility into actuality, by the fiat of the deity.
الصفحة 38 - And what is true of our concept of creation, holds of our concept of annihilation. We can think no real annihilation, — no absolute sinking of something into nothing.