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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... arguments , or else to answer those of my opponents . Englishmen generally are said to be endowed with the gift of never knowing when they are beaten . But English Positivists seem to have a yet more remarkable talent - that of never ...
... arguments , or else to answer those of my opponents . Englishmen generally are said to be endowed with the gift of never knowing when they are beaten . But English Positivists seem to have a yet more remarkable talent - that of never ...
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... arguments of Gall and others , that in order to reflect on a state of mind , we must first pass out of that state into another ; and so the state to be reflected on will be over before reflection can begin . He proposes to substitute ...
... arguments of Gall and others , that in order to reflect on a state of mind , we must first pass out of that state into another ; and so the state to be reflected on will be over before reflection can begin . He proposes to substitute ...
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... argument , we feel that they are false . We say with Mr Froude , " It is not so ; we know it ; and that is enough . " Now I apprehend the rejec- tion of Spinozism , as a system , is justified not only because , in defining man as a ...
... argument , we feel that they are false . We say with Mr Froude , " It is not so ; we know it ; and that is enough . " Now I apprehend the rejec- tion of Spinozism , as a system , is justified not only because , in defining man as a ...
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... argument only proves that if there be an abso- lutely real being , he must have an infinity of attri- butes . Curiously enough , while Spinoza maintains that common notions , such as man , freedom , virtue , good and evil , are vague ...
... argument only proves that if there be an abso- lutely real being , he must have an infinity of attri- butes . Curiously enough , while Spinoza maintains that common notions , such as man , freedom , virtue , good and evil , are vague ...
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... argument not against metaphysics , but only against an unsound metaphysical method . Once more . Though I believe there is more to be learned from Hegel than from any preceding meta- physician , though the application of certain ...
... argument not against metaphysics , but only against an unsound metaphysical method . Once more . Though I believe there is more to be learned from Hegel than from any preceding meta- physician , though the application of certain ...
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