The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 122
... experience , so far from strengthening this instinct of the understanding as it has been called , seems rather to modify and restrain it . The child who elicited a noise which it likes from the collision of its spoon with the table ...
... experience , so far from strengthening this instinct of the understanding as it has been called , seems rather to modify and restrain it . The child who elicited a noise which it likes from the collision of its spoon with the table ...
Page 128
... experience , at least once , of both these terms ; and of the con- junction between them . If we have seen but once ... experience comprehensive of both terms is wanting , it is alleged , in the question of a God . We may have had an ...
... experience , at least once , of both these terms ; and of the con- junction between them . If we have seen but once ... experience comprehensive of both terms is wanting , it is alleged , in the question of a God . We may have had an ...
Page 131
... experience in the making of worlds . Had we observed once or oftener the sequence of two terms A and B - then ... experience . Now how is this met both by Reid and Stuart ? -by conceding that the argument for a God is not an experimental ...
... experience in the making of worlds . Had we observed once or oftener the sequence of two terms A and B - then ... experience . Now how is this met both by Reid and Stuart ? -by conceding that the argument for a God is not an experimental ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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