History of the Philosophy of Mind: Embracing the Opinions of All Writers on Mental Science from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 4, Part 1Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1830 - Philosophy |
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Page 74 - ... imagination, or in a supposition, conceive the reverse of that which is asserted. That there are such truths cannot be doubted. We may take, for example, all relations of Number. Three and two make five. We cannot conceive it otherwise. We cannot, by any freak of thought, imagine three and two to make seven.
Page 72 - When the Greeks, after long observing the motions of the planets, saw that these motions might be rightly considered as produced by the motion of one wheel revolving in the inside...
Page 74 - Necessary truths are those in which we not only learn that the proposition is true, but see that it must be true; in which the negation of the truth is not only false, but impossible; in which we cannot, even by an effort of imagination, or in a supposition, conceive the reverse of that which is asserted. That there are such truths cannot be doubted. We may take, for example, all relations of number. Three and Two added together made Five. We cannot conceive it to be otherwise. We cannot, by any...
Page 6 - ... consciousness necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence of what is felt, but of the present existence of that which feels...
Page 40 - The appearance of a cause always conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the idea of the effect. Of this also we have experience. We may, therefore, suitably to this experience, form another definition of cause and call it an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other.
Page 62 - ... energy. And by virtue of the former, that is, reason, faith must be a light, a form of knowing, a beholding of truth. In the incomparable words of the Evangelist, therefore — faith must be a light originating in the Logos, or the substantial reason, which is coeternal and one with the Holy Will, and which light is at the same time the life of men.
Page 118 - ... them a basis, a substratum independent of all modifications ? If we all possess the capacity and the instinct to go beyond this natural view of things, why do so few of us follow this instinct, or exercise this capacity ? — nay, why do we even resist with a sort of bitterness when we are urged towards. this path ? What holds us imprisoned in these natural boundaries? Not inferences of our reason; for there are none which could do this. It is our deep interest in reality that does this — in...
Page 62 - Faith subsists in the synthesis of the reason and the individual will. By virtue of the latter therefore it must be an energy, and inasmuch as it relates to the whole moral man, it must be exerted in each and all of his constituents or incidents, faculties and tendencies ; — it must be a total, not a partial; a continuous, not a desultory or occasional energy.
Page 62 - ... man, it must be exerted in each and all of his constituents or incidents, faculties and tendencies : — it must be a total, not a partial — a continuous, not a desultory or occasional — energy. And by virtue of the former, that is, Reason, Faith must be a Light, a form of knowing, a beholding of Truth.
Page 118 - ... away into the absolutely void inane. I know that every seeming truth, born of thought alone, and not ultimately resting on faith, is false and spurious; for knowledge, purely and simply such, when carried to its utmost consequences, leads to the conviction that we can know nothing! Such knowledge never finds anything in the conclusions...