The Works of Thomas Reid ...: With Account of His Life and Writings, 第 3 巻Samuel Etheridge, Jun'r., 1815 |
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2dly abstract absurd active power affirmed ancient ancient philosophy appears apprehend argument Aristotle ascribe attri attributes authority axioms beauty believe bishop Berkeley body called Cartes cause ceive CHAP Cicero colour common sense conceive conclusion consciousness consider contingent truths contrary definition degree demonstration disagreements of ideas distinct conception distinct notion distinguish doubt effect enthymeme eral evidence experience expressed external senses faculties false genus give grounded human knowledge Hume idola fori idola specus impossible individual infer ject judge judgment kind language Locke lord Bacon Malebranche mankind mathematical matter meaning ment mind moral natural philosophy nature necessary truth never Nominalists objects of sense objects of thought observe operations opinion perceive perfectly Peripatetic philosophers Platonists principles proof proper proposition prove qualities reasoning regard relations self-evident signify skepticism species suppose taste testimony things tion triangle true understanding word idea word sense
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59 ページ - 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.
100 ページ - 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.
59 ページ - 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.
314 ページ - 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.
178 ページ - 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!
60 ページ - 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.
384 ページ - 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.
126 ページ - 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.
343 ページ - 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...
57 ページ - 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...