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" Truths are known to us in two ways : some are known directly, and of themselves ; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness ;* the latter, of Inference. The truths known by intuition are the original... "
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive - Page vii
by John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 600 pages
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 6

1843 - 750 pages
...experience, or from ratiocination only. Truths, he observes, in a passage we have already quoted (p. 393,) " are known to us in two ways: some are known directly...Intuition or Consciousness ; the latter of Inference. The truihs known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred. . . We never...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 6

1843 - 744 pages
...experience, or from ratiocination only. Truths, he observes, in a passage we have already quoted (p. 393,) " are known to us in two ways: some are known directly...original premisses, from which all others are inferred. . . We never could arrive at any knowledge by reasoning, unless something could be known antecedently...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 6

1843 - 744 pages
...he observes, in a passage we have already quoted (p. 398,) " are known to us in two ways: some arc known directly and of themselves; some through the...original premisses, from which all others are inferred. . . We never could arrive at any knowledge by reasoning, unless something could be known antecedently...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 630 pages
...included too little, that which is now suggested has the opposite fault of including too much. Truths are known to us in two ways : some are known directly,...latter, of Inference. The truths known by intuition arc the original premisses from which all others are inferred. Our assent to the conclusion being grounded...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 624 pages
...included too little, that which is now suggested has the opposite fault of including too much. Truths are known to us in two ways : some are known directly, and of themselves ; some through tho medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness ; the latter,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1848 - 544 pages
...our procedure in treating his Logic as a theory of Knowledge in general. " Truths," says Mr. Mill, " are known to us in two ways ; some are known directly,...being grounded upon the truth of the premisses, we could never arrive at any knowledge by reasoning, unless something could be known antecedently to all...
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Treatise on Moral Evidence: Illustrated by Numerous Exapmles Both of General ...

Edward Arthur Smedley - 1850 - 368 pages
...the evidence which manifests the certainty of propositions is of two kinds. " Some truths (says Mill) are known directly and of themselves ; some through the medium of other truths." Those which are known thus mediately are the subject of inference: but those which are known directly...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - 1851 - 530 pages
...included too little, that which is now suggested has the opposite fault of including too much. Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly,...inferred. Our assent to the conclusion being grounded on the truth of the premisses, we never could arrive at any knowledge by reasoning, unless something...
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HAND-BOOK OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS;

GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...the human understanding in the pursuit of truth. This definition, however, includes too much. Truths are known to us in two ways : some are known directly...themselves ; some through the medium of other truths. It is only with the latter that logic has to do. Logic is not the science of belief, but the science...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D ..., Volume 2

David Thomas - 458 pages
...rapid impulse. " Truths," says one whom science has ranked amongst the first authorities of the day, " are known to us in two ways : some are known directly and of themselves, and others through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of intuition or consciousness,...
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