The Logic of Contemporary English RealismLongmans, Green, 1923 - 147 من الصفحات |
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abstract according Alexander Analysis of Mind appears becomes belief called causal cause characters coherence common complete conception concrete connection continuity criticism dependence determine distinction elements empirical entities essential existence experience express external relations fact formal logic fundamental given hence Ibid Idealism Idealist ideas identified identity images immediate imply important independent individual inference instance interpretation involves isolated judgment kind knowledge laws less logic mathematics matter meaning mental merely method mind Moore motion nature necessary object Objective Idealism observation organic particulars perception perhaps philosophy physics possible present Principles problems properties propositions qualities Realism reality reason reference regarded relations Russell Russell's says Scientific Method seems sensations sense significant simple Space Space-Time standpoint stuff supposed theory things thought tion true truth ultimate unity universals whole
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الصفحة 17 - Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy. When I am convinc'd of any principle, 'tis only an idea, which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.
الصفحة 10 - Those long chains of reasoning, simple and easy as they are, of which geometricians make use in order to arrive at the most difficult demonstrations, had caused me to imagine that all those things which fall under the cognizance of man might very likely be mutually related in the same fashion...
الصفحة 16 - 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...
الصفحة 27 - But the examination of knowledge can only be carried out by an act of knowledge. To examine this socalled instrument is the same thing as to know it. But to seek to know before we know is as absurd as the wise resolution of Scholasticus, not to venture into the water until he had learned to swim.
الصفحة 44 - It does not in the least neglect the empirical facts contained in the other sciences but recognises and adopts them : it appreciates and applies towards its own structure the universal element in these sciences, their laws and classifications ; but besides all this, into the categories of science, it introduces, and gives currency to, other categories.
الصفحة 41 - ... malicious' in regard to the world of science and common sense. It is only so that we can account for the complacency with which philosophers have accepted the inconsistency of their doctrines with all the common and scientific facts which seem best established and most worthy of belief. The logic of mysticism shows, as is natural, the defects which are inherent in anything malicious.
الصفحة 129 - Whatever may be an object of thought, or may occur in any true or false proposition, or can be counted as one, I call a term.
الصفحة 18 - Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of signs, as the things signified by them, do agree or disagree one with another.
الصفحة 13 - In all demonstrative sciences the rules are certain and infallible; but when we apply them, our fallible and uncertain faculties are very apt to depart from them, and fall into error.
الصفحة 64 - Pure Mathematics is the class of all propositions of the form "p implies q," where p and q are propositions containing one or more variables, the same in the two propositions, and neither p nor q contains any constants except logical constants.