An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy: And of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His WritingsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 650 pages |
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... space and even this distinction , it is maintained ( though the doctrine is vehemently protested against by some ) may be resolved into a difference in our sensations . When thus analysed , it is affirmed that all the attributes which ...
... space and even this distinction , it is maintained ( though the doctrine is vehemently protested against by some ) may be resolved into a difference in our sensations . When thus analysed , it is affirmed that all the attributes which ...
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... space , and occupying a portion of time , are not properties of our sensations in their crude state , neither , again , are they properties of the objects , nor is there in the objects any prototype of them . They result from the nature ...
... space , and occupying a portion of time , are not properties of our sensations in their crude state , neither , again , are they properties of the objects , nor is there in the objects any prototype of them . They result from the nature ...
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... Space are only modes of our perceptions , not modes of existence , and higher Intelligences are possibly not bound by them . Things , in themselves , are neither in time nor in space , though we cannot represent them to ourselves except ...
... Space are only modes of our perceptions , not modes of existence , and higher Intelligences are possibly not bound by them . Things , in themselves , are neither in time nor in space , though we cannot represent them to ourselves except ...
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... Space or Extension as a product of association , while many of our intellectual ideas are regarded by him as ultimate and undecomposable facts . But he accepts , in its full extent , the doctrine of the Relativity of our knowledge ...
... Space or Extension as a product of association , while many of our intellectual ideas are regarded by him as ultimate and undecomposable facts . But he accepts , in its full extent , the doctrine of the Relativity of our knowledge ...
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... space , by compressing it " into an inextended . " 66 The following is still more specific.§ " The Primary ' Qualities " are apprehended as they are in bodies ; the Secondary , as they are in us : the Secundo - primary " ( a third class ...
... space , by compressing it " into an inextended . " 66 The following is still more specific.§ " The Primary ' Qualities " are apprehended as they are in bodies ; the Secondary , as they are in us : the Secundo - primary " ( a third class ...
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