 But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find, upon a nearer examination, that it is really confined within very narrow limits, and that all this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding,...  The Monthly repository (and review). - Page 2141817Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alfred Weber - 1904 - 652 pages
...; but a nearer examination shows that it is really confined within very narrow limits, and that it amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. All the materials of our thinking are derived either... | |
 | Alfred Weber - 1896 - 660 pages
...; but a nearer examination shows that it is really confined within very narrow limits, and that it amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. All the materials of our thinking are derived either... | |
 | Charles Wesley Rishell - 1899 - 654 pages
...outfit, ready for use when the purposes of knowledge demanded them. It is not true, then, that the "creative power of the mind amounts to no more than...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. " The mind is in possession of ideas or constructive... | |
 | John Grote - 1900 - 368 pages
...the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. 5. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find upon...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. 4—2 When we think of a golden mountain, we only... | |
 | John Grote - 1900 - 368 pages
...of proceeding is not distinct. When, in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph, we read that, ' this creative power of the mind amounts to no more...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience... all the materials of thinking are derived from... | |
 | David Hume - 1902 - 419 pages
...beyond the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join... | |
 | David Hume - 1907 - 324 pages
...beyond the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find, upon a nearer examination, (fliat it is really confined within very narrow limits, 1and that all this creative power of the mind... | |
 | 1908 - 768 pages
...beyond the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join... | |
 | John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume - 1910 - 460 pages
...beyond the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join... | |
 | Émile Coué, James Louis Orton, J. Louis Orton - 1924 - 236 pages
...Columbus have found another continent." "The creative power of the mind," as stated the philosopher Hume, "amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience." Imagination supplies the materials, from the storehouse... | |
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