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Knowing and Being. E-book. Formato PDF John Veitch - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Will be to me a grateful memorial at least of hours spent with an audience of youths, fresh-hearted and full of hope, with the promise and the charm of life still before them, who have shown a real concern for the higher questions of.
Lucretius and the Atomic Theory. E-book. Formato PDF John Veitch - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
This impression of an incompatibility between the intellectual and the imaginative is shown to be groundless by many names in the course of abstract speculation. Plato, Pascal, and others at once occur to us; but there is no more complete type in history of the fusion of the two qualities than the subject of this address — I mean Lucretius.
Institutes of Logic. E-book. Formato PDF John Veitch Ll - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
He further excludes Psychology from Logic on the ground that Logic seeks'to know not the contingent but the necessary, not how the understanding thinks, and has thought, but how it ought to think, the accord of the understanding with itself. This assumes that there can be no necessary exercise of the understanding in a given instance, — for example, no absolutely necessary implication in a given reasoning performed by the understanding, and consciously known to be necessary whereas, this necessary relation is given and consciously realised in a single instance Of valid reasoning. Kant thus confuses the particular or singular with the contingent. It assumes, further, that the understanding may think in experi ence in a way different from that in which it must think, if it thinks at all. This is not so. There is only one way of thinking by the understanding, that is, the legitimate way. Any other is a mere illusion, not a reality of thought at all. And there is no reason why the understanding may not naturally perform its process of thinking rightly rather than wrongly.