Lessons from Nature: As Manifested in Mind and Matter, 25권;590권J. Murray, 1876 - 462페이지 |
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... conceived to be seriously entertained by some one . This assertion serves to discriminate between real and verbal doubt . There is , of course , nothing which The second cannot be called in question verbally . The exist- proposition ...
... conceived to be seriously entertained by some one . This assertion serves to discriminate between real and verbal doubt . There is , of course , nothing which The second cannot be called in question verbally . The exist- proposition ...
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... conceived by the mind can be communicated to others by articulate speech . At the end of a controversy with Agnostics they may turn round upon their opponents and deny the validity The third of any conclusions arrived at on the ground ...
... conceived by the mind can be communicated to others by articulate speech . At the end of a controversy with Agnostics they may turn round upon their opponents and deny the validity The third of any conclusions arrived at on the ground ...
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... conceive , how these multitudinous modifi- cations of it arise . But if the phrase is taken to mean the underlying something of which these distinguishable portions are formed , or of which they are modifications ; then we know nothing ...
... conceive , how these multitudinous modifi- cations of it arise . But if the phrase is taken to mean the underlying something of which these distinguishable portions are formed , or of which they are modifications ; then we know nothing ...
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... conceive a given proposition to be true , or that they positively do see that the opposite of a given proposition cannot be true . Negative perceptions of simple inconceivability are reflex , but positive intuitions ( as when I gaze at ...
... conceive a given proposition to be true , or that they positively do see that the opposite of a given proposition cannot be true . Negative perceptions of simple inconceivability are reflex , but positive intuitions ( as when I gaze at ...
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... conceive but it is evidently a necessary truth that ( a2 + ab + x ) + ( a b − x + b2 ) = ( a + b ) × ( a + b ) ... conceived * " beings living and moving along the surface of a solid body , who are able to perceive nothing but what exists ...
... conceive but it is evidently a necessary truth that ( a2 + ab + x ) + ( a b − x + b2 ) = ( a + b ) × ( a + b ) ... conceived * " beings living and moving along the surface of a solid body , who are able to perceive nothing but what exists ...
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absolute accept action activity admit affirm Agnostics amongst animals apes assert believe birds brutes Cardinal Noris cause certainty characters CHARLES DARWIN Chauncey Wright colour conceive conception condition consciousness consider Darwin declarations deny distinct doctrine doubt evidence evolution existence expression external fact faculties feelings female force Herbert Spencer homology homoplasy human hypothesis idea instinct intellectual intelligence John Stuart Mill judgment kind language less Lewes males man's manifest means mental mind mode moral natural selection necessarily necessary truth objective observes organism origin of species perception phenomena philosophy physical position possess present principle Professor Huxley proposition question races racters rational reason recognised relations religion remarks resemblance result savage says scepticism seems sensations sense sexual selection Sir John Lubbock Spencer structure Suarez supposed teaching tells Theism theory things thought tion tribes true truth Tylor universe validity words
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391 페이지 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
283 페이지 - ... fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore. I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.
177 페이지 - It is only our natural prejudice, and that arrogance which made our forefathers declare that they were descended from demi-gods, which leads us to demur to this conclusion.
297 페이지 - Dr. Hooker, in his address to the British Association, spoke thus of the author: "Of Mr. Wallace and his many contributions to philosophical biology it is not easy to speak without enthusiasm; for, putting aside their great merits, he, throughout his writings, with a modesty as rare as I believe it to be unconscious, forgets his own unquestioned claim to the honour of having originated independently of Mr. Darwin, the theories which he so ably defends.
89 페이지 - As monkeys certainly understand much that is said to them by man, and as in a state of nature they utter signal-cries of danger to their fellows,36 it does not appear altogether incredible, that some unusually wise ape-like animal should have thought of imitating the growl of a beast of prey, so as to indicate to his fellow monkeys the nature of the expected danger. And this would have been a first step in the formation of a language.
390 페이지 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
284 페이지 - IF IT could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
104 페이지 - ... that there exists a being in whom all the excellences which the highest human mind can conceive, exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I am informed that the world is ruled by a being whose attributes are infinite, but what they are we cannot learn, nor what are the principles of his government, except that the highest human morality which we are capable of conceiving does not sanction them; convince me of it and I will bear my fate as I may.
389 페이지 - ... the imperfections that cannot be remedied, the aspirations that cannot be realized, of man's own nature. But in this sadness, this consciousness of the limitation of man, this sense of an open secret which he cannot penetrate, lies the essence of all religion; and the attempt to embody it in the forms furnished by the intellect is the origin of the higher theologies.
390 페이지 - Nevertheless we call these, and many other strange phenomena, the properties of the water, and we do not hesitate to believe that, in some way or another, they result from the properties of the component elements of the water. We do not assume that a something called