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... century the expression " natural philosophy " figured , even in the syllabuses of academic and learned bodies , as a designation for the department of scientific research known as Physics , while to the common man , chemistry ...
... century the expression " natural philosophy " figured , even in the syllabuses of academic and learned bodies , as a designation for the department of scientific research known as Physics , while to the common man , chemistry ...
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... century have resulted in a striking rehabilitation of cosmology , i.e. the systematic doctrine of nature , or the object - world , as a leading philosophical discipline . The doctrines of the Conservation of Energy and of Evolution have ...
... century have resulted in a striking rehabilitation of cosmology , i.e. the systematic doctrine of nature , or the object - world , as a leading philosophical discipline . The doctrines of the Conservation of Energy and of Evolution have ...
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... century . It is a bad specimen of a bad class , the compilation - history , but being one of the most copious sources of information respecting the lives and characters of the ancient philosophers , has been extensively utilised by all ...
... century . It is a bad specimen of a bad class , the compilation - history , but being one of the most copious sources of information respecting the lives and characters of the ancient philosophers , has been extensively utilised by all ...
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... century . This was followed by Johnson's translation of Tennemann's small manual ( subsequently reprinted , with additions and annotations , in Bohn's Philosophical Library ) . Robert Blakey's History of the Philosophy of Mind ...
... century . This was followed by Johnson's translation of Tennemann's small manual ( subsequently reprinted , with additions and annotations , in Bohn's Philosophical Library ) . Robert Blakey's History of the Philosophy of Mind ...
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... century , was that these social organisations were the surviving monuments of a high primitive culture . In the light of the scientific con- ception of history , to which modern research and criticism has accustomed us , they are seen ...
... century , was that these social organisations were the surviving monuments of a high primitive culture . In the light of the scientific con- ception of history , to which modern research and criticism has accustomed us , they are seen ...
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Page 199 - When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.