Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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... concepts , and names . — Sensa- tion and perception inexplicable . - The working of our mind.— No percept without ... concept of cause LECTURE VI . 103-140 THE INFINITE IN NATURE , IN Man , and in THE SELF . Positivist objections ...
... concepts , and names . — Sensa- tion and perception inexplicable . - The working of our mind.— No percept without ... concept of cause LECTURE VI . 103-140 THE INFINITE IN NATURE , IN Man , and in THE SELF . Positivist objections ...
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... conceptual roots . - Are concepts possible without words ? —Berkeley . Process of naming . — Origin of concepts . - Former theories . - The clamor concomitans . - The conceptual foundation of language . - Our conceptual world 351-384 ...
... conceptual roots . - Are concepts possible without words ? —Berkeley . Process of naming . — Origin of concepts . - Former theories . - The clamor concomitans . - The conceptual foundation of language . - Our conceptual world 351-384 ...
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... concept of God in the mind of such a thinker as Pascal , would be absurd . We can never be too grateful , if we can discover the germinal idea of a word , if we can prove , for instance , that deus was originally no more than a bright ...
... concept of God in the mind of such a thinker as Pascal , would be absurd . We can never be too grateful , if we can discover the germinal idea of a word , if we can prove , for instance , that deus was originally no more than a bright ...
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... concepts which have two sides , nay , which become complete only when we compre- hend these two or more sides as sides of one and the same concept . We may define a triangle by its three angles as well as by its three sides . Our ...
... concepts which have two sides , nay , which become complete only when we compre- hend these two or more sides as sides of one and the same concept . We may define a triangle by its three angles as well as by its three sides . Our ...
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... concepts . A feeling of pain makes us act in one way , a feeling of pleasure in another . A mere perception of distance makes the crow fly direct , that is by the shortest road , and induces a peasant to cross a field diagonally ...
... concepts . A feeling of pain makes us act in one way , a feeling of pleasure in another . A mere perception of distance makes the crow fly direct , that is by the shortest road , and induces a peasant to cross a field diagonally ...
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