Conversations on the elements of metaphysics, tr. by R. PennellJ. & J. Keene, 1838 - Всего страниц: 200 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 95
Стр.
... CAL , has been so generally diffused as to have become one of the enviable peculiarities of French Philosophical Style , and almost of the French Lan- guage . " ELEMENTS OF METAPHYSICS . DIALOGUE I. THESE things , said ADVERTISEMENT . vii .
... CAL , has been so generally diffused as to have become one of the enviable peculiarities of French Philosophical Style , and almost of the French Lan- guage . " ELEMENTS OF METAPHYSICS . DIALOGUE I. THESE things , said ADVERTISEMENT . vii .
Стр. 1
Claude Buffier. ELEMENTS OF METAPHYSICS . DIALOGUE I. THESE things , said EUGENIUS , con- temptuously , are mere metaphysical sub- tilties -- idle speculations , tending to no useful purpose . LEANDER , who had devoted much of his ...
Claude Buffier. ELEMENTS OF METAPHYSICS . DIALOGUE I. THESE things , said EUGENIUS , con- temptuously , are mere metaphysical sub- tilties -- idle speculations , tending to no useful purpose . LEANDER , who had devoted much of his ...
Стр. 4
... things are the most lia- ble to be abused ; reason itself is some- times employed to uphold , by the vicious exercise of its powers , the most unreason- able opinions ; and Metaphysics may be served in a like manner , and yet be not the ...
... things are the most lia- ble to be abused ; reason itself is some- times employed to uphold , by the vicious exercise of its powers , the most unreason- able opinions ; and Metaphysics may be served in a like manner , and yet be not the ...
Стр. 6
... thing without being aware of it , said LEANDER , smiling ; and , besides , a person may possess talents of which he is unconscious ; like the Man in the Comedy , who had been talking prose all his life without ever once sus- pecting it ...
... thing without being aware of it , said LEANDER , smiling ; and , besides , a person may possess talents of which he is unconscious ; like the Man in the Comedy , who had been talking prose all his life without ever once sus- pecting it ...
Стр. 7
... thing relating to literature ; and yet he employs Meta- physics with wonderful address in the practice of the courts , and the conduct of a law - suit . His ideas on that subject are most distinct and precise . If you metamorphose an ...
... thing relating to literature ; and yet he employs Meta- physics with wonderful address in the practice of the courts , and the conduct of a law - suit . His ideas on that subject are most distinct and precise . If you metamorphose an ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Conversations on the Elements of Metaphysics, Tr. by R. Pennell Claude Buffier Недоступно для просмотра - 2019 |
Conversations on the Elements of Metaphysics, Tr. by R. Pennell Claude Buffier Недоступно для просмотра - 2016 |
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
Abstraction absurd accuracy and precision actually added LEANDER admit answered LEANDER appears Aristotle Atheism Bayle believe BUFFIER Cicero Circle circumstance CLAUDE BUFFIER clear Colour Common Sense comprehend conceive consequence constitutes conversation corporeal substance degree of reason demonstration Descartes Dugald Stewart ELEMENTS OF METAPHYSICS equally EUGE evidence exis existence of God extension external fact faculty false human idea impossible instance intelligible internal truth interrupted EUGENIUS interrupted LEANDER judge judgment knowledge Logic luminous Malebranche mankind matter means ment Meta Metaphy Metaphysician mind nature NIUS notions observation opinion ourselves particular perceived perception percipient Philosophers Plato precision principle proposition prove rational reality regard replied EUGENIUS replied LEANDER resemblance respect rience Science sensation sentiments separate shew signified similar Socrates sopher speak species Stilpo subtile subtilties tence term thing thought tion Treatise true understanding Universals word γαρ δε
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 123 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Стр. 119 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Стр. 180 - We ascribe to reason two offices or two degrees. The first is to judge of things self-evident; the second, to draw conclusions that are not self-evident from those that are. The first of these is the province and the sole province of common sense ; and therefore it coincides with reason in its whole extent, and is only another name for one branch or one degree of reason.
Стр. 158 - If, then, external objects be not united to our minds when they produce ideas therein, and yet we perceive these original qualities in such of them as singly fall under our senses, it is evident that some motion must be thence continued by our nerves, or animal spirits, by some parts of our bodies,' to the brain, or the seat of sensation, there to produce in our minds the particular ideas we have of them.
Стр. 120 - ... order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of- mankind, and a far more extensive comprehension of things, is requisite, than ever office gave, or than office can ever give.
Стр. 166 - Light and colours, heat and cold, extension and figures, in a word the things we see and feel, what are they but so many sensations, notions, ideas or impressions on the sense ; and is it possible to separate, even in thought, any of these from perception ? For my part I might as easily divide a thing from itself.
Стр. 179 - It is absurd to conceive that there can be any opposition between reason and common sense.* It is indeed the first-born of Season ; and, as they are commonly joined together in speech and in writing, they are inseparable in their nature.
Стр. 176 - Now by common sense is meant, I apprehend, (when the term is used with any distinct meaning,) an exercise of the judgment unaided by any art or system of rules; such an exercise as we must necessarily employ in numberless cases of daily occurrence; in which, having no established principles to guide us, no line of procedure, as it were, distinctly chalked out, we must needs act on the best extemporaneous conjectures we can form. He who is eminently skilful in doing this, is said to possess a superior...
Стр. 167 - As for our senses, by them we have the knowledge only of our sensations, ideas, or those things that are immediately perceived by sense, call them what you will : but they do not inform us that things exist without the mind, or unperceived, like to those which are perceived.