The Philosophical Review, Bind 37

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Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham
Cornell University Press, 1928
An international journal of general philosophy.

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Side 209 - Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul ; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry.
Side 242 - In the final, the positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws, — that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance.
Side 140 - A person may, it is true, in the course of his studies, find reason to doubt what he began by believing; but in that case he doubts because he has a positive reason for it, and not on account of the Cartesian maxim. Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.
Side 287 - We evidently know what we mean by length if we can tell what the length of any and every object is, and for the physicist nothing more is required. To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length...
Side 285 - In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.
Side 472 - Now the theory of Pragmaticism was originally based, as anybody will see who examines the papers of November 1877 and January 1878, upon a study of that experience of the phenomena of self-control which is common to all grown men and women; and it seems evident that to some extent, at least, it must always be so based.
Side 390 - The human mind is functioning symbolically when some components of its experience elicit consciousness, beliefs, emotions, and usages, respecting other components of its experience. The former set of components are the 'symbols,' and the latter set constitute the 'meaning
Side 147 - Name; I did not now long for things better because I conceived of all: and with a sounder judgment. I apprehended that the things above were better than these below, but all together better than those above by themselves.
Side 407 - God always and necessarily does determine itself to choose to act only what is agreeable to Justice, Equity, Goodness, and Truth...
Side 409 - ... that one magnitude or number is greater, equal to, or smaller than another. That from these different relations of different things there necessarily arises an agreement or disagreement of some things with others, or a fitness or unfitness of the application of different things or different...

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