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... priori knowledge . The expression ą priori as latterly employed with reference to cognition marks that knowledge which is supposed to be or pronounced to be above and independent of experience . Kant in the ' Critique of Pure Reason ...
... priori knowledge . The expression ą priori as latterly employed with reference to cognition marks that knowledge which is supposed to be or pronounced to be above and independent of experience . Kant in the ' Critique of Pure Reason ...
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... priori , and we must discard the term innate as a characteristic mark of ą priori knowledge . We are obliged therefore to fall back upon universal and necessary , to obtain a true idea of what is meant by the phrase , for the ...
... priori , and we must discard the term innate as a characteristic mark of ą priori knowledge . We are obliged therefore to fall back upon universal and necessary , to obtain a true idea of what is meant by the phrase , for the ...
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... priori ; we invariably think of sentient beings as having them . These remarks may be suffi- cient to show that ą priori knowledge is either generalisation from experience or an extension of experience in imagination , and so far as it ...
... priori ; we invariably think of sentient beings as having them . These remarks may be suffi- cient to show that ą priori knowledge is either generalisation from experience or an extension of experience in imagination , and so far as it ...
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... priori cognition , hypotheses and anticipations of the future , all these making up and including the most prominent groups . 1 115 CHAPTER LIII . DEFINITIONS AND DIVISIONS . DEFINITIONS . 114 PART VII . COGNITIVE INTEGRATIONS .
... priori cognition , hypotheses and anticipations of the future , all these making up and including the most prominent groups . 1 115 CHAPTER LIII . DEFINITIONS AND DIVISIONS . DEFINITIONS . 114 PART VII . COGNITIVE INTEGRATIONS .
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... priori conditions . " This catalogue even ( which is sufficient for our present purpose ) is perplexing enough , but Sir William Hamilton's list in his ' Note A ' in Reid exhibits a still greater and most astonishing variety of ...
... priori conditions . " This catalogue even ( which is sufficient for our present purpose ) is perplexing enough , but Sir William Hamilton's list in his ' Note A ' in Reid exhibits a still greater and most astonishing variety of ...
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ą priori abstract according action ęsthetic argument associations attribute axiom cause Chap character characteristic cognition complete concept conclusion connection consciousness Crown 8vo definition degree desire dispositions distinction division Edition effect emotions ends equal evidence exercise existence experience expressed fact faculty fallacies feeling fictions former generalisation greater happiness hence Hickok idea ideal illustration implies individual induction infer instances intension intuitive intuitive knowledge J. S. Mill judgments knowledge latter laws means ment mental method method of agreement method of difference mind movement nature necessary truths necessity notion noumenon objects observation particular percepts philosophy pleasures and pains premisses present primary pleasures principles priori proposition racter Rational Psychology re-percept reason redintegration reference regard repose representation rience scientific sensations sense sentiments sexual space straight lines summum bonum syllogism term things thought tion true uniformity universal volition vols Whewell whole Woodcuts words
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Page 262 - Secondly, the other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without...
Page 313 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 351 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 261 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 400 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean, — This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled.
Page 445 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 262 - ... as we do from bodies affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called
Page 313 - Also when they shall be afraid of that -which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...