| James Martineau - 1876 - 76 lehte
...phenomena of feeling and thought. Yet this is precisely the transition which is pronounced "unthinkable;" "we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other." If between these statements " nothing but harmony reigns," then indeed I am justly charged... | |
| James Martineau - 1876 - 100 lehte
...of feeling and thought. Yet this is precisely the transition which is pronounced " unthinkable ;" " we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other." If between these statements "nothing but harmony reigns," then indeed I am justly charged... | |
| Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 414 lehte
...the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association in 1868, wherein he declared that " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the organ,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1876 - 816 lehte
...love,' but how does consciousness infuse itself into the problem ?" And here is the answer : — " U J àU (] v "f So b p^6 - t 7WJ: U 8 o)Bҧ D v f G _Ê K1'd̷hv V Ђg M A 6 N u C defmite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain, occur simultaneously ; we do not possess... | |
| Ransom Bethune Welch - 1876 - 320 lehte
...knowledge. They may moderate their zeal by reflecting upon the involuntary confession of Prof. Tyndall : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable ; " or, upon the friendly warning of Dr. Bray : " There is no bridge from physics to metaphysics —... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 688 lehte
...srtrprised should his meaning be misapprehended. We must, however, accept the explicit statements that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," and that " the chasm between the two classes of phenomena is intellectually impassable." Physical and... | |
| Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell - 1876 - 336 lehte
...does consciousness infuse itself into this eternal round of shifting process? In Prof. Tyndall's view: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." He says : " Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously;... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 608 lehte
...And so long as the most advanced physicists are constrained to admit, with Professor Tyndall, that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," the theory of a separate and spiritual soul, in some way — to us mysterious, but, for aught we know,... | |
| Albany Institute - 1876 - 326 lehte
...It would be at the bottom not a case of logical inference at all, but of empirical association * * * The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable (p. 117). * * * In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised... | |
| 1876 - 592 lehte
...regarding the world to come. This looks very much like a contradiction. After having told us that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable," you would have us suppose that nevertheless " pure intellect," untroubled by hopes and fears of a world... | |
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