ESSAY ON MAN'S IDEAS OF POWER1857 |
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... properties acting and re - acting on each other , as in a hammer driving a nail , or even in the wind urging a sail ; but in what manner a body can affect the mind seems as inexpli- cable as how it could beat a vacuum . Why is common ...
... properties acting and re - acting on each other , as in a hammer driving a nail , or even in the wind urging a sail ; but in what manner a body can affect the mind seems as inexpli- cable as how it could beat a vacuum . Why is common ...
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... properties , but by no means to consist of power . When they say their notion of substance possesses power , but it does not consist of it , they use power in a secondary meaning - in the meaning of energy or influence ; but I ...
... properties , but by no means to consist of power . When they say their notion of substance possesses power , but it does not consist of it , they use power in a secondary meaning - in the meaning of energy or influence ; but I ...
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... properties and characters of chemical elements , and it contradicts the infinite divisibility of matter . 29. AN ATOM IS NOT A THING OF SMALL Magnitude . An atom is supposed , to a proverb , to be a thing of small size , and of all ...
... properties and characters of chemical elements , and it contradicts the infinite divisibility of matter . 29. AN ATOM IS NOT A THING OF SMALL Magnitude . An atom is supposed , to a proverb , to be a thing of small size , and of all ...
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... properties of bodies indicate something peculiar in the law of its force at the centre at home . There the force is at least antithetical , being at once attractive and repulsive , making both the pro- perties of cohesion and solidity ...
... properties of bodies indicate something peculiar in the law of its force at the centre at home . There the force is at least antithetical , being at once attractive and repulsive , making both the pro- perties of cohesion and solidity ...
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... properties ? The common answer will probably be : The bulk of a particle is filled up with matter ; but what matter is that fills it up is quite unknown . Now , a particle of a body , such as the dust of wood or stone , is susceptible ...
... properties ? The common answer will probably be : The bulk of a particle is filled up with matter ; but what matter is that fills it up is quite unknown . Now , a particle of a body , such as the dust of wood or stone , is susceptible ...
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affinity agency antecedent apprehend arise atom capable causation changes chemical chemical affinity chemical elements conceive conceptions connected consciousness consequent consist constitution contradiction Descartes determine difference disposition distinct electric elementary particle elements energy entity eternal ether evidence exercises existence faculty of thinking feeling fluid Free agency fundamental idea gravitation hard idea of power idea of substance ideas of reason impossible indefinite inertia infinite INFINITELY DIVISIBLE infinity influence intelligence knowledge known light limits Locke's manner material substance mechanical mental substance mind modes moral action moral constitution moral responsibility motion move nature necessity object operate organisation ourselves particles perception perfect Perfect power person pheno phenomena philosophy possible principles proper qualities of body rational realise reality relation sensation sense sensible separate Sir William Hamilton sophism space speed of gravity stance supposed tendencies things thoughts and affections tion transcend truth understanding unity Uranus weight
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Page 32 - If any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find that he has no other idea of it all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us ; which qualities are commonly called accidents
Page 58 - Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Page 128 - The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
Page 32 - ... tortoise, and the tortoise by he knew not what. Thus here, as in all cases where we use words without distinct ideas, we talk like children, who being questioned what such a thing is that they know not, answer, Something. The idea then to which we give the name of substance being but the unknown support of qualities, which we imagine cannot subsist without something to support them, we call that support, substantia, standing under, or...
Page 91 - I say, our specific ideas of substances are nothing else but a collection of a certain number of simple ideas, considered as united in one thing.
Page 75 - This they take for an undoubted truth, which they can demonstrate beyond all exception. Now if it be certain, that those original qualities are inseparably united with the other sensible qualities, and not, even in thought, capable of being abstracted from them, it plainly follows that they exist only in the mind. But I desire...
Page 86 - ... in all our operations, whether agricultural or manufacturing, it is not we who operate, but the laws of nature which we have set in operation. It is, then, of the highest importance that we should know these laws, in order to know what we are about...
Page 27 - ... be no harm in speaking again of the mind of man and the mind of animals as a tabula rasa on which impressions are made which faint, and spontaneously develop into conceptions and general ideas. They might revive the old watchword of Locke's school ' — though it is really much older than Locke4 — 'that there is nothing in the intellect that was not before in the senses...
Page 55 - ... obvious that each of the particles of matter will, by its attraction, collect about it a condensed atmosphere of ether. If the attractions and repulsions be all inversely as the squares of the distances...
Page 65 - I have long held an opinion that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest, have one common origin; are, indeed, so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, into one another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.