 | Charles Kittredge True - 1860 - 188 pàgines
...discover any of its causes or effects. Adam, though his rational faculties be supposed at the very first entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the...light and warmth of fire that it would consume him." All this we see no reason to dispute ; but when he advances to the conclusion that it is by repeated... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1874 - 588 pàgines
...very first, entirely perfect, could not, from the fluidity and transparency of water, have inferred that it would suffocate him ; or, from the light and...of fire, that it would consume him. No object ever reveals, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either the causes which produced it, or the effects... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1855 - 600 pàgines
...the very first, entirely perfect, could not from the fluidity and transparency of water have inferred that it would suffocate him; or from the light and...our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real existence or matters of fact. The effect is a distinct event from the cause,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 pàgines
...knowledge of effects or causes is due to experience ; the other, the extremely irrelevant assertion that " no object ever discovers by the qualities which appear...produced it or the effects which will arise from it," — in other words, no object, viewed in its present condition, is viewed in its past and future* condition... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - 1881 - 614 pàgines
...impossible is it to find in any particular cause any particular quality by which it is the cause it is. ' No object ever discovers, by the qualities which appear...produced it, or the effects which will arise from it.' But if causality be not a quality, it can only be a relation. And this relation examined, we find all... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1882 - 564 pàgines
...suffocate him ; -or, from the light and warmth of fire, that it would consume him. No object ever reveals, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either...our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real existences or matters of fact. The effect is a distinct fact from the cause,... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1882 - 564 pàgines
...very first, entirely perfect, could not, from the fluidity and transparency of water, have inferred that it would suffocate him; or, from the light and...of fire, that it would consume him. No object ever reveals, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either the causes which produced it, or the effects... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1882 - 566 pàgines
...suffocate him; or, from the light and warmth of fire, that it would consume him. No object ever reveals, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either...causes which produced it, or the effects which will ari.-e from it; nor can our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real... | |
 | Gustav Gerber - 1884 - 360 pàgines
...experience, when we find that any particular objects are constantly conjoined with each other. — No object ever discovers, by the qualities which appear...our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real existence and matter of fact. — (L cp 42): „nor is it reasonable to conclude,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 pàgines
...which he supports this conclusion in the "Inquiry," however, is not strictly relevant to the issue. " No object ever discovers, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either the cause which produced it, or the effects which will arise from it; nor can our reason, unassisted by... | |
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Adam, though his rational faculties be supposed, at the very first, entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water, that it would suffocate him ; or from the light and warmth of fire that it would consume him. No... 
