Elements of Thought: Or, Concise Explanations (alphabetically Arranged) of the Principal Terms Employed in the Several Branches of Intellectual Philosophy |
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... kind to which this volume re- lates . A treatise on any branch of intellectual philosophy , if it be complete and systematical , must include many topics which no simplicity or per- spicuity of style can render easily comprehensible ...
... kind to which this volume re- lates . A treatise on any branch of intellectual philosophy , if it be complete and systematical , must include many topics which no simplicity or per- spicuity of style can render easily comprehensible ...
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... kind of method is that of mere DIVISION ; which reduces many to a few parcels . But if many things are sorted with some reference ( more or less accurate ) to their real differences , then the sorting is called an ARRANGEMENT ( in ...
... kind of method is that of mere DIVISION ; which reduces many to a few parcels . But if many things are sorted with some reference ( more or less accurate ) to their real differences , then the sorting is called an ARRANGEMENT ( in ...
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... kind are easily multiplied ; we will take another . Water , and glass , and spirits , and diamonds , admit the rays of light to pass through them ; so that objects may be discerned almost as clearly when they intervene , as when they ...
... kind are easily multiplied ; we will take another . Water , and glass , and spirits , and diamonds , admit the rays of light to pass through them ; so that objects may be discerned almost as clearly when they intervene , as when they ...
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... kind of action ; but of the abstract notion which belongs to any action wherein a man pays strict regard to the rights and property of others . Or if , in his actions , he goes beyond what might have been demanded 16 ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT .
... kind of action ; but of the abstract notion which belongs to any action wherein a man pays strict regard to the rights and property of others . Or if , in his actions , he goes beyond what might have been demanded 16 ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT .
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... kind of abstraction ; nor can a man be very successful in any line , if nature has denied him the special faculty which is demanded in that line . What is called a natural taste for particular pursuits is most commonly a peculiar power ...
... kind of abstraction ; nor can a man be very successful in any line , if nature has denied him the special faculty which is demanded in that line . What is called a natural taste for particular pursuits is most commonly a peculiar power ...
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absolutely abstract notions abstract terms acquired admit advantage affirmed AMEN CORNER analogy analysis animals argument ascer assent association of ideas attention believe bishop of Rome body called cause and effect circumstances conclusion connexion consciousness contingent copula degree demonstration difference distinguished Dunmow emotions employed error especially event evidence example exer existence express external object facts faculty of abstraction fallacious feeling genus habit human mind hypothesis ideas imagination inference influence instance intel intellectual ISAAC TAYLOR judgment kind knowledge known logic matter means memory ment mental Metaphysics method mode motive natural philosophy nature opinion particular perceive personal identity persons philosophy possess prejudice principles probable produced proper properties purpose quadruped qualities racter reasoning recollection relation rience Romford rule sensation sense separation shews sition sophisms sort speak spoken substance successive supposed supposition SYLLOGISM taste testimony things thought tical tion true truth unquestionable truth word
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Page 46 - Nor how strong soever may be any particular habit of thinking, is any mind absolutely incapable of breaking off its customary meditations, and of fixing itself upon another set of ideas. Every one is conscious of possessing a power (more or less perfect) of detaining some one thought, or class of thoughts, in the mind, and of considering, or viewing a particular subject successively, in all its parts and relations. This power is called Attention. It is the proper and distinguishing excellence of...
Page 94 - the power of the mind to decompose its conceptions and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure.
Page 44 - ... addict themselves to the cultivation of philosophy, from the influence of mere taste. In this manner new discoveries are made ; and these, more or less directly, improve the arts of life ; and so a perpetual advancement goes on by the mutual influence of mechanical skill and philosophical principles. ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS. It is the law or usage of the human mind long to retain any connexion, even of the most accidental kind, which has once been formed between two or more thoughts or states of...
Page 45 - The mathematician, the mechanician, the statesman, the poet, the artist, the man of business, each acquires his proper habit of association, and each is prompt and successful in his line, just in proportion to the rationality and the closeness of the connexions that have been formed in his mind. This principle of the association of ideas is sometimes, or by some writers, called the law of Suggestion.
Page 14 - ... alike in some single quality ; and when this one quality is distinctly taken notice of, we readily learn to think of it apart from the other qualities with which it may have been joined ; and thus the mind acquires the habit of drawing off certain properties of things, and of giving names to them : this habit is called abstraction ; and the words employed on such occasions are called abstract terms.
Page 161 - Apostles, is confinned in each of the methods above mentioned, and by the combination of them all. Indeed it may boldly be affirmed that no fact whatever, in ancient history, is nearly so well and fully attested as is the Gospel history. If that history is rejected, then not only is all history an illusion, but the entire system of human...
Page 66 - From contingo, to touch upon, or happen. In popular language, whatever event takes place of which we do not discern the cause, why it should have happened in this manner, or at this moment, rather than another, is called a contingent event; or an event without a cause : as for example, the falling of a leaf on a particular spot, or the turning up of a certain number, when dice are thrown.