 When we entertain, therefore, any suspicion that a philosophical term is employed without any meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need but enquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived? And if it be impossible to assign any, this...  Principles of psychology - Page 348by Herbert Spencer - 1910Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...(as is but too frequent,) we need but inquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion. By bringing ideas into so clear a light, we may reasonably hope to remove all dispute, which may arise... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...(as is but too frequent), we need but inquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived ? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion. By bringing ideas in so clear a light, we may reasonably hope to remove all dispute, which may arise... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - Philosophy, Modern - 1840 - 460 pages
...without any meaning or idea, we need but enquire from what impression is that supposed idea derived. And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion. Ibid. p. 22. All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to... | |
 | Heinrich Ritter - Philosophy - 1853 - 702 pages
...any meaning or idea, — — we need but inquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion. 2) Ess. II p. 70 not. We ought to divide arguments into demonstrations, proofs, and probabilities.... | |
 | Ritter - Philosophy - 1853 - 680 pages
...meaning or idea, — — we need but inquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived ? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion. 2) Ess. II p. 70 not. We ought to divide arguments into demonstrations, proofs, and probabilities.... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...(as is but too frequent,) we need but inquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion. By bringing ideas in so elear a light, we may reasonably hope to remove all dispute, which may arise... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophy - 1867 - 692 pages
...meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need but inquire from what impression is that idea derived ? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion.'* In other words, a conception which we are unable to reduce to sensible elements can have no objective... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1872 - 670 pages
...(as is but too frequent), we need but inquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived ? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion. " Passing over some two pages treating " Of the Association of Ideas," we come to Section IV. entitled... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1873 - 674 pages
...without any meaning or idea, "wo need but inquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived ? and if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve...without dependence on what is anywhere existent in if? There is no such impression; consequently there is no such idea; consequently the proposition is... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1873 - 672 pages
...(as is but too frequent), we need but inquire, frum what impression is that supposed idea derived ? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm onr suspicioni. " Passing over some two pages treating " Of the. Association of Ideas/' we come to... | |
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