... be able, by the most accurate examination of its sensible qualities, to discover any of its causes or effects. Adam, though his rational faculties be supposed, at the very first, entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency... Brownson's Quarterly Review - Página 447editado por - 1855Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| David Hume - 1760 - 314 páginas
...perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and tranfparency of water,- that it would fufibcate him, or from the light and warmth of fire, that it would confume him. No object ever difcovers, by the qualities which appear to the fenfes, either the caufes,... | |
| John Douglas - 1807 - 432 páginas
...could not have " inferred, from the fluidity and tranfpa-i " rency of water, that it would fuffocate " him, or from the light and warmth of " fire, that it would confume him. No " objeft ever difcovers, by the qualities " which appear to the fenfes, either the... | |
| David Hume - 1817 - 528 páginas
...very first, entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water, that it would suffocate him ; or from the light and...discovers, by the qualities which appear to the senses, cither the causes which produced it, or the effects which will arise from it ; nor can our reason,... | |
| John Douglas - 1824 - 268 páginas
...very first, ever so perfect, could not have inferred, from the fluidity and transparency of water, that it would suffocate him, or from the light and...our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inferences concerning real existence and matter *of fact." It is on the truth of these assertions that... | |
| John Douglas - 1832 - 270 páginas
...veryfirst, entirely perfect, could not " have inferred, from the fluidity and transparency " of water, that it would suffocate him, or from the " light and...reason, unassisted by experience, ever " draw any inferences concerning real existence and " matter of facth." It is on the truth of these assertions... | |
| John Douglas (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1832 - 266 páginas
...first, entirely perfect, could not " have inferred, from the fluidity and transparency " of water, that it would suffocate him, or from the " light and...reason, unassisted by experience, ever " draw any inferences concerning real existence and " matter of facth." It is on the truth of these assertions... | |
| Charles Kittredge True - 1860 - 188 páginas
...the very first entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water that it would suffocate him, or from the light and warmth of fire that it would consume him." All this we see no reason to dispute ; but when he advances to the conclusion that it is by repeated... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1874 - 588 páginas
...draw inferences from them, from the presence of some infer that others have been or have not been, will or will not occur, and are obliged to do so in...of fire, that it would consume him. No object ever reveals, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either the causes which produced it, or the effects... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 páginas
...knowledge of effects or causes is due to experience ; the other, the extremely irrelevant assertion that " no object ever discovers by the qualities which appear...produced it or the effects which will arise from it," — in other words, no object, viewed in its present condition, is viewed in its past and future* condition... | |
| Immanuel Kant - 1881 - 614 páginas
...impossible is it to find in any particular cause any particular quality by which it is the cause it is. ' No object ever discovers, by the qualities which appear...produced it, or the effects which will arise from it.' But if causality be not a quality, it can only be a relation. And this relation examined, we find all... | |
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