The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man to Ascertain His Capacity to Know and Serve God, and the Validity of the Principles Underlying the Defence of Theism |
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... Faculties . - II . The Mind active in knowing . — III . Element of intelligence contributed by the mind.-IV. How acts of knowledge are distinguished . 44-45 10. INTUITION OR PRIMITIVe Knowledge . - I . Definition . - II . Presenta- tive ...
... Faculties . - II . The Mind active in knowing . — III . Element of intelligence contributed by the mind.-IV. How acts of knowledge are distinguished . 44-45 10. INTUITION OR PRIMITIVe Knowledge . - I . Definition . - II . Presenta- tive ...
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... faculties cannot be the true idea of a reality out of all relation to our faculties . Thus atheism forces us at once on the investigation of the nature and extent of man's capacity of knowledge . The question between theism and atheism ...
... faculties cannot be the true idea of a reality out of all relation to our faculties . Thus atheism forces us at once on the investigation of the nature and extent of man's capacity of knowledge . The question between theism and atheism ...
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... faculties and in the normal exercise of all his powers . He may have necessary beliefs in accordance with which he must think ; but he can never have confidence that his necessary belief is trustworthy or that by any intuition or any ...
... faculties and in the normal exercise of all his powers . He may have necessary beliefs in accordance with which he must think ; but he can never have confidence that his necessary belief is trustworthy or that by any intuition or any ...
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... faculties are trustworthy , can be a reason only because those faculties are trustworthy . It is therefore illegitimate and useless to attempt to prove the reality of knowledge or the trustworthiness of our intellectual powers . So far ...
... faculties are trustworthy , can be a reason only because those faculties are trustworthy . It is therefore illegitimate and useless to attempt to prove the reality of knowledge or the trustworthiness of our intellectual powers . So far ...
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... faculties are trust- worthy . " It exists , rather , in every act of knowledge , as the man's unenunciated consciousness of himself as knowing , of an object known , and of the knowledge . It is a waste of intellect to carry the ...
... faculties are trust- worthy . " It exists , rather , in every act of knowledge , as the man's unenunciated consciousness of himself as knowing , of an object known , and of the knowledge . It is a waste of intellect to carry the ...
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Page 95 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 95 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Page 326 - ... if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then, indeed, is he spoiled by vain philosophy; for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge, but having regard to God no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge.
Page 340 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side.
Page 407 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 190 - I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not...
Page 380 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 388 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 324 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 314 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...