 British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; derived neither from education nor from habit, but from nature...  The Gates Wide Open; Or, Scenes in Another World - Page 215by George Wood - 1870 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Skinner - 1809 - 692 pages
...that which he finds most suitable to his own plan ; he then describes common sense as " signifying that power of the mind, " which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by " progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, *' instinctive, and irresistible impulse, derived neither "... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...cji^fcgregant? Lib. i. cap. 2. But the term common fenfe hath in modern times been ufcd to fignify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progreffive argumentation, but by an inflantantous, inflincHve, and irrefiitible impulfe ; derived... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 560 pages
...common sense hath, in modern times, been used by philosophers, both French and British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, Instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; derived neither from... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1815 - 502 pages
...judgment, altogether destitute of it. The term common sense has, in modern times, been used to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an insrantaweous impulse, derived noi.tucr from education nor habit, but from... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 934 pages
...est, scgrcgarit У Lib. i. cap. 2. But the term common sense hath in modern times been used to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; derived neither from... | |
 | Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 pages
...common sense has in modern limes been used by philosophers , both irench and british, ' to signify that power of the mind, which perceives truth or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive and irresistible impulse, derived neither from... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...common sense hath, in modern times, been used by philosophers, both French and British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; derived neither from... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 452 pages
...common sense hath, in modern times, been used by philosophers, both French and British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; derived neither from... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...public education, lib. i. cap. 2. But the term common sense hath in modern times been used to signify asion I had an opportunity of seeing the convulsion fits to which the religious cong argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; "derived neither from... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1831 - 482 pages
...to have intended, expressly asserts that common sense, as he understands it, signifies " that TOWER of THE MIND which perceives truth or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous and INSTINCTIVE IMPULSE; { or, as he says on another occasion,... | |
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