Personality: The Beginning and End of Metaphysics and a Necessary Assumption in All Positive PhilosophyW. Blackwood and Sons, 1883 - 130 pages |
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... CAMBRIDGE ; AND PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON SECOND EDITION , REVISED WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXIII All Rights reserved PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THE substance of the.
... CAMBRIDGE ; AND PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON SECOND EDITION , REVISED WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXIII All Rights reserved PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THE substance of the.
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... logical science , and maintains that introspection can only lead to illusion . This he makes little effort to prove . He relies on the stock arguments of Gall and others , that in order to reflect on a state of mind , we must first pass ...
... logical science , and maintains that introspection can only lead to illusion . This he makes little effort to prove . He relies on the stock arguments of Gall and others , that in order to reflect on a state of mind , we must first pass ...
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... logic were as unim- peachable as Jacobi and Mr Lewes1 have main- " " 1 Whoever will take the trouble to go carefully through the ' Ethics ' will find many circular reasonings , many " definitions , ' besides the first , which are not ...
... logic were as unim- peachable as Jacobi and Mr Lewes1 have main- " " 1 Whoever will take the trouble to go carefully through the ' Ethics ' will find many circular reasonings , many " definitions , ' besides the first , which are not ...
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... Logic of Hegel , ' that " the cogito ergo sum of Des- cartes must be dismissed , because the certainty does not lie at the very root of all things . begin with the I , would only place us at a point where the severance between thought ...
... Logic of Hegel , ' that " the cogito ergo sum of Des- cartes must be dismissed , because the certainty does not lie at the very root of all things . begin with the I , would only place us at a point where the severance between thought ...
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