The Scientific Approach to Philosophy: Selected Essays and ReviewsMacmillan, 1924 - 278 oldal |
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278. oldal - Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for, if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away.
29. oldal - He soon returned and said that we might come in. On entering we found Socrates just released from chains, and Xanthippe, whom you know, sitting by him, and holding his child in her arms. When she saw us she uttered a cry and said, as women will : 'O Socrates, this is the last time that either you will converse with your friends, or they with you.
29. oldal - JUAN. Je crois que deux et deux sont quatre, Sganarelle, et que quatre et quatre sont huit.
52. oldal - Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
137. oldal - ... reality that is limited to a definite portion of Space and to a definite moment in Time. And, supposing we succeed in the attempt, the consequence is that the only fact is the Brain process with the Epiphenomenon, and therefore the Reality we are aware of may be illusory. And yet this knowledge of a Brain process with this consequence is an inference from the Reality we falsely suppose ourselves to know. Since the difficulty of the Realist, as is thus seen, is due to the assumption that there...
187. oldal - Absolute space, in its own nature, without relation to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces; which our senses determine by its position to bodies...
48. oldal - The Monads have no windows, through which anything could come in or go out.
226. oldal - M. Descartes venait ici en partie pour consulter le mal de mon frère, sur quoi il ne lui dit pourtant pas grand'chose; seulement il lui conseilla de se tenir tous les jours au Ut jusqu'à ce qu'il fut las d'y être et de prendre force bouillons.
205. oldal - Let us now proceed to consider the paradox of the voyage in the cannon-ball, familiar to every one who is acquainted with the expositions of the principle of relativity. Suppose a traveller to leave the earth on a projectile moving at a velocity lower by about the twenty-thousandth than the velocity of light; suppose that when he has lived one year he meets a star and is then returned to earth at the same velocity, he will find on leaving his projectile that the earth in his two years' absence has...