The Tests of the Various Kinds of Truth: Being a Treatise of Applied LogicHunt & Eaton, 1889 - 132 pages |
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The Tests of the Various Kinds of Truth: Being a Treatise of Applied Logic James McCosh No preview available - 2016 |
The Tests of the Various Kinds of Truth: Being a Treatise of Applied Logic James McCosh No preview available - 2016 |
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abstract animal anteced antecedent apodictic apple argue argument Aristotle ascer ascertained assume attribute believe body bounding sphere called cause Christ conclusions concrete conscious CONSILIENCE criteria DEDUCTIVE METHOD Deductive Truth determine Discursive or Deductive discursive thought distance DOGMATIC AND DEDUCTIVE duction earth effect enunciated event evidence evil existence experience facts feel give Herbert Spencer higher hypothesis idea imply inferences intuitive J. S. Mill JOINT DOGMATIC JOINT INDUCTIVE Law of Causation laws of uniformity LECTURE Logic look means metaphysicians Method of Agreement mind miracle moral Natural Philosophy NATURAL THEOLOGY notions objects observation OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY perceive perceptions philosophy physical plants premises present produce proof prove reality reasoning responsible resurrection of Jesus rise seek self-evident truth senses singular space straight lines substance supernatural sure tell testimony tests things tion true uniformity of nature universal whole
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Page 131 - Now they were sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in their right mind.
Page 38 - He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 116 - There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. 2. Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by means of organized matter either endowed with vegetable life or subjected to the will of an animated creature.
Page 69 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 82 - A clever man," says Sir J. Herschel, " shut up alone and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions of space and number of which he cannot divest himself without ceasing to think ; but he...
Page 91 - ... the history of science contains. And as I shall have occasion to refer to this peculiar feature in their evidence, I will take the liberty of describing it by a particular phrase, and will term it the Consilience of Inductions. " It is exemplified principally in some of the greatest discoveries. Thus it was found by Newton that the doctrine of the attraction of the sun varying according to the inverse square of...
Page 91 - But the evidence in favour of our induction is of a much higher and more forcible character when it enables us to explain and determine cases of a kind different from those which were contemplated in the formation of our hypothesis.
Page 128 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord...
Page 125 - that, in the cattle-market, an ox had, of his own accord, mounted up to the third story of a house, whence, being affrighted by the noise and bustle of the inhabitants, he threw himself down ; that a light had appeared in the sky in the form of ships ; that the temple of Hope, in the herb-market, was struck by lightning ; that...
Page 116 - Within a finite period of time past the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come the earth must again be, unfit for the habitation of man...