Whatever is known to us by consciousness is known beyond possibility of question. What one sees or feels, whether bodily or mentally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels. No science is required for the purpose of establishing such truths; no... A Logic of Facts, Or, Every-day Reasoning - Page 24by George Jacob Holyoake - 1866 - 93 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 630 pages
...These questions are partly not a subject of science at all, partly that of a very different science. Whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known...feels, whether bodily or mentally, one cannot but be .eure that one sees or feels. No science is required for the purpose of establishing such truths ;... | |
| Edward Arthur Smedley - Apologetics - 1850 - 368 pages
...those things which we receive directly,f are admitted with a very high ยป _^ degree of assurance. " What one sees or feels, whether bodily or mentally,...There is no logic for this portion of our knowledge."* Again, the testimony of witnesses is of remarkable cogency. Men naturally speak the truth, unless there... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1851 - 530 pages
...These questions are partly not a subject of science at all, partly that of a very different science. Whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known...is in itself. There is no logic for this portion of our'knowledge. But we may fancy that we see or feel what we in reality infer. Newton saw the truth... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1852 - 640 pages
...is known beyond possi\j bility of question. What one sees, or feels, whether bodily or men' tally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels. No...There is no logic for this portion of our knowledge. But we may fancy that wo see or feel what we in reality infer. Newton saw the truth of many propositions... | |
| William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 968 pages
...No science is required for the purpose of establishing such truths ; no rules of art can render the knowledge of them more certain than it is in itself....There is no logic for this portion of our knowledge.' Logic,- then, ' is not the science of belief, but the science of proof or evidence. In so far as belief... | |
| William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Science - 1866 - 972 pages
...intuition, Mr. Mill replies that with convictions of the latter class logic has nothing whatever to do. ' No science is required for the purpose of establishing such truths ; no rules of art can render the knowledge of them more certain than it is in itself. There is no logic for this portion of our... | |
| William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 992 pages
...intuition, Mr. Mill replies that with convictions of the latter class logic has nothing whatever to do. ' No science is required for the purpose of establishing such truths ; no rules of art can render the knowledge of them more certain than it is in itself. There is no logic for this portion of our... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1870 - 510 pages
...unconditional truth of direct consciousness. ." Whatever is known to us by consciousness," says Mr. JS Mill, " is known beyond possibility of question. What one...mentally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels." " If we feel hot or chilly," says Dr. Newman, " no one will convince us to the contrary by insisting... | |
| Arthur Young - Meditation - 1873 - 222 pages
...other ; must be in the number of primitive data or of the conclusions which may be drawn therefrom. " Whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known...mentally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels But we may fancy that we see or feel what we in reality infer A (rut li, or supposed truth, which is... | |
| Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1873 - 672 pages
...belief are not decisive proof of the truth of what is thus believed. Even Stuart Mill admits that " whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known beyond possibility of question." l Mr. Mansel tells us that it is from consciousness we get our idea of substance, of personality, of... | |
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