The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 1Duyckinck, Collins [and others], 1822 - Philosophy |
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The Works of Thomas Reid: With Account of His Life and Writings Jared Sparks,Dugald Stewart,Thomas Reid No preview available - 2015 |
The Works of Thomas Reid ...: With Account of His Life and Writings Thomas Reid No preview available - 2020 |
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affirmed ancient appear Aristotle attention axioms belief bishop Berkeley brain called categorical propositions categorical syllogisms cause colour common sense conceive concerning conclusion connexion definition distance distinct distinguished diverging eye division doctrine evidence existence express external objects faculties genius genus gisms give habit hath human mind human nature hypothesis ideal philosophy ideas images imagination impression inquiries judgment kind knowledge language laws of nature less logic logicians lord Bacon Malebranche mankind manner mathematical means middle term modes natural philosophy natural signs nerves never notions observed operations opinion optic optic nerve particular perceive perception phenomena philosophers powers predicate premises principles propositions qualities of body reason regard Reid Reid's retina rules seems sensation signs skepticism smell sophisms species squint substance suppose syllogism theory thing signified THOMAS REID thought tion Treatise of Human truth understanding universal visible figure vision words writers
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Page 28 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Page 413 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without...
Page 31 - Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature, and that, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another.
Page 269 - And now being lately couched of his other eye, he says, that objects at first appeared large to this eye, but not so large as they did at first to the other ; and looking upon the same object with both eyes, he thought it looked about twice as large as with the first couched eye only, but not double, that we can any ways discover.
Page 53 - And something previous even 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.
Page 141 - ... It may perhaps be unreasonable to complain of this conduct in an author who neither believes his own existence nor that of his reader; and therefore could not mean to disappoint him, or to laugh at his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author of the "Treatise of Human Nature" is so sceptical as to plead this apology.
Page 336 - If a discourse on the use of the parts of the body may be considered as an hymn to the Creator ; the use of the passions, which are the organs of the mind, cannot be barren of praise to him...
Page 149 - Suppose that once, and only once, I smelled a tuberose in a certain room, where it grew in a pot, and gave a very grateful perfume. Next day I relate what I saw and smelled. When I attend as carefully as I can to what passes in my mind in this case, it appears evident that the very thing I saw yesterday, and the fragrance I smelled, are now the immediate objects of my mind, when I remember it.
Page 130 - The ingenious author of that treatise upon the principles of Locke, who was no sceptic, hath built a system of scepticism, which leaves no ground to believe any one thing rather than its contrary. His reasoning appeared to me to be just : there was therefore a necessity to call in question the principles upon which it was founded, or to admit the conclusion.
Page 341 - The faculties of the mind, and its powers, are often used as synonymous expressions. But as most synonymes have some minute distinction that deserves notice, I apprehend that the word faculty is most properly applied to those powers of the mind which are original and natural, and which make a part of the constitution of the mind. There are other powers which are acquired by use, exercise, or study, which are not called faculties, but habits. There must be something in the constitution of the mind...