The purpose of the physical sciences throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question What is '? They consist only of facts arranged according to their likeness, and expressed by general names given to every class of similar facts. The purpose... History of the Revolution in England in 1688 - Pàgina 140per Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 403 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 380 pàgines
...difficult to draw a general distinction between them. The purpose of the Physical Sciences throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question What...ought to govern voluntary action, and to which those habitual dispositions of mind which are the source of voluntary actions ought to be adapted. It is... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 352 pàgines
...The purpose of the Physical Sciences throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question Wlutt is? They consist only of facts arranged according...ought to govern voluntary action, and to which those habitual dispositions of mind which are the source of voluntary actions ought to be adapted. It is... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 340 pàgines
...difficult to draw a general distinction between them. The purpose of the Physical Sciences throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question What...likeness, and expressed by general names given to *ery class of similar facts. The purpose of the Moral Sciences is to answer the question What ought... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1833 - 348 pàgines
...purpose of the physical sciences, throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question, " What is?" The purpose of the moral sciences is to answer the question, " What ought to be ?" — It should be well kept in view, that mental philosophy is one province of the physical sciences,... | |
| James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pàgines
...difficult to draw a general distinction between them. The purpose of the physical sciences throughout all their provinces is to answer the question, What...ought to govern voluntary action, and to which those habitual dispositions of mind which are the source of voluntary actions ought to be adapted." ,- .After... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 316 pàgines
...the august and sacred landmarks that stand conspicuous along the frontier between right and wrong. . the question What is ? They consist only of facts...ought to govern voluntary action, and to which those habitual dispositions of mind which are the source of voluntary actions, ought to be adapted. It is... | |
| sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pàgines
...difficult to draw a general distinction between them. The purpose of the physical sciences throughout all their provinces is to answer the question, What...sciences is to answer the question, What ought to be 1 They aim at ascertaining the rules which ought to govern voluntary action, and to which those habitual... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1834 - 636 pàgines
...sciences, throughout all their provinces, is, we have been told, to answer the question, What is? That of the moral sciences is, to answer the question, What ought to be ? But even as to what /'*, a distinction must be made, as wide as the interval between the respective... | |
| 1834 - 550 pàgines
...sciences, throughout all their provinces, is, we have been told, to answer the question, What is? That of the moral sciences is, to answer the question, What ought to be? But even as to what is, a distinction must be made, as wide as the interval between the respective... | |
| Renn Dickson Hampden - 1835 - 304 pàgines
...what «'«." The distinction has been laid down n " The purpose of the physical sciences, throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question, What...ought to govern voluntary action, and to which those habitual dispositions of mind which are the source of voluntary actions ought to be adapted." — Sir... | |
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