The Works of Thomas Reid ...: With Account of His Life and Writings, Volumen3Samuel Etheridge, Jun'r., 1815 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
2dly abstract absurd action active power affirm agreements ancient ancient philosophy appears apprehend argument Aristotle ascribe attri attributes axioms beauty believe bishop Berkeley body called Cartes cause ceive CHAP colour common sense conceive conclusion consciousness consider constitution contingent truths contrary definition degree demonstration distinct notion distinguish doubt effect efficient cause enthymeme eral Euclid evidence existence experience express external senses faculties false genus give grounded Hume idea of power idola fori idola specus individual ject judge judgment justly kind language Locke Malebranche mankind mathematical matter meaning ment mind moral natural philosophy nature necessary truth never Nominalists objects of sense objects of thought observed operations opinion perceive perfect perfectly philosophers Platonists principles probable produce proof proper proposition qualities reasoning regard relations self-evident sensation signify skepticism species suppose taste things tion triangle true understanding verbs volition word sense
Pasajes populares
Página 59 - I can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can consider the hand, the eye, the nose, each by itself abstracted or separated from the rest of the body. But then, whatever hand or eye I imagine, it must have some particular shape and colour.
Página 100 - And something previous ev'n to taste — 'tis sense : Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no science, fairly worth the seven : A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
Página 59 - I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself the ideas of those particular things I have perceived, and of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse.
Página 314 - God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things. One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world.
Página 178 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found. And the world's victor stood subdued by sound!
Página 60 - And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract ; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle.
Página 384 - I think evident, that we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end, several actions of our minds and motions of our bodies, barely by a thought or preference of the mind ordering, or, as it were, commanding the doing or not doing such or such a particular action.
Página 126 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Página 343 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Página 57 - A * great philosopher has disputed the received opinion in this particular, and has asserted that all general ideas are nothing but particular ones annexed to a certain term which gives them a more extensive signification and makes them recall upon occasion other individuals which are similar to them. As I look upon this to be one of the greatest and most valuable discoveries that has been made of late years in the republic of letters...