The Science of ThoughtLongmans, Green, and Company, 1887 - 664 pages |
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... kind of animal Not Proven . But while Darwin would have been satisfied with having esta- blished the descent of man from some kind of animal , I have never doubted , nor do I doubt , that man has been , is , and always will be an animal ...
... kind of animal Not Proven . But while Darwin would have been satisfied with having esta- blished the descent of man from some kind of animal , I have never doubted , nor do I doubt , that man has been , is , and always will be an animal ...
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... kind of immediate and almost intuitive judgment animals share in common with man , nay , they seem to excel man in their spon- taneous , and therefore unerring combinations . No one is more inclined to believe almost anything 1 Sir J ...
... kind of immediate and almost intuitive judgment animals share in common with man , nay , they seem to excel man in their spon- taneous , and therefore unerring combinations . No one is more inclined to believe almost anything 1 Sir J ...
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... wisdom , and because I felt it necessary , once for all , to define my own position with respect to the so - called intellect of animals . The hopelessness of explaining cases of this kind according to 14 FIRST CHAPTER .
... wisdom , and because I felt it necessary , once for all , to define my own position with respect to the so - called intellect of animals . The hopelessness of explaining cases of this kind according to 14 FIRST CHAPTER .
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... kind of understanding among serious psychologists , never to appeal to this kind of evidence again . We can imagine , for instance , that a mollusc is a mere mass of pulp and lives in total darkness , but we may equally well imagine ...
... kind of understanding among serious psychologists , never to appeal to this kind of evidence again . We can imagine , for instance , that a mollusc is a mere mass of pulp and lives in total darkness , but we may equally well imagine ...
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... kind of eocene period , during which percepts gradually rise towards the sphere of concepts , though the admission of such a period is again more the result of reasoning than of actual experience . The very moment we become con- scious ...
... kind of eocene period , during which percepts gradually rise towards the sphere of concepts , though the admission of such a period is again more the result of reasoning than of actual experience . The very moment we become con- scious ...
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abstract acts adjectives admit animal apodictic applied Aristotle Aryan Aryan languages attributes become beginning Berkeley called causality colour conceived concepts connotation consciousness Crown 8vo Darwin definition derived Descartes digger distinguish doubt Edition exist experience explain express fact genus German grammar Greek guage Herbert Spencer human mind Hume ideas imagine instance intellect intuition Kant Kant's KHAD knowledge language and thought Latin Leibniz likewise Logic matter meaning meant originally metaphor Mill Monon mortal nature never Noiré nominal nouns object origin of language Pânini perceived percepts philosophers phonetic possible predicate priori proposition R. A. PROCTOR reason roots Sanskrit Science of Language Science of Thought seems sensations sense sensuous singular sounds space speak species substance suffixes supposed syllogism synthetical proposition T. H. Green theory things tion true truth verb Woodcuts words YUDH
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