This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...exertions, our notion of causality would be of an empirical derivation, and without 'A point at issue between two eminent French philosophers, to whose writings I am under considerable obligations, will be considered in the Appendix, note E. the quality of universality and necessity'. Reid himself, in another passage, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...exertions, our notion of causality would be of an empirical derivation, and without 'A point at issue between two eminent French philosophers, to whose writings I am under considerable obligations, will be considered in the Appendix, note E. the quality of universality and necessity'. Reid himself, in another passage, admits the same thing. "The proposition to be proved," he says, "is not a contingent but a necessary proposition. It is not that things which begin to exist commonly have a cause, or even that they always in fact have a cause; but that they must have a cause, and cannot begin to exist without a cause. Propositions of this kind, from their nature, are incapable of proof by induction. Experience informs us only of what is or has been, not of what must be; and the conclusion must be of the same nature with the premises." That experience is the chronological antecedent of all our knowledge, even of the most necessary truths, is now generally admitted. But a distinction is frequently drawn, and has been more than once adverted to in the preceding pages, between truths or notions of which experience is the source, and those of which it is only the occasion. The mind, instead of being compared to a tabula rasa, on which experience impresses the whole writing, is likened to a seed, which must indeed be planted before it will grow; but contact with the soil is only the occasion which calls forth the hidden germ of the plant. Both analogies are imperfect; and both, as regards the present question, tend f Reid's Works, p. 604. - Intett. Powers, Essay vi. ch. 6. (p. 455, of Sir W. Hamilton's edition.) rather to darken than to illustrate. The point may be better explained by laying aside, as far as is possible, physical imagery alt...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover.8vo. Brown cltoh binding. Title upon paper banner on backstrip. Moderate shelf wear. Backstrip is torn along two thirds of its front edge, and is chipped and torn at its upper and lower ends. Top edge darkened. Rear hinge split. Library markings on front free end paper. Binding firm. Underlining and writing at margins in pen and pencil throughout. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN:
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Fair. No Jacket. No date (c. 1890), Second Edition, 359 pp. Hardcover, brown cloth. Spine torn and mostly missing; text-block and boards sound and secure. Foxing to endpapers. University library stamps to endpapers and title page; some markings through text. Reference copy only.
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Very Good. First American edition, 1860, hardcover with black cloth boards, octavo, 291pp., not illustrated. Book VG with rubbing and mild wear to spine ends and corners, gilt titles on spine handsome and bright, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but carrying a mild smoke odor. No DJ.
