The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid... Autobiography - Page 226by John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
| Paul Carus - 1893 - 264 pages
...these times the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every intense feeling,...its own all-sufficient voucher and justification." Mr. Mill is justified in rejecting anything that cannot be reduced to experience, viz., experience... | |
| 1906 - 920 pages
...these times, the great Intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every intense feeling,...reason, and Is erected Into its own all-sufficient Toucher and justification. There never was such an instrument devised for consecrating all deep-seated... | |
| 1906 - 858 pages
...these times, the great Intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory every Inveterate belief and every intense feeling,...justifying itself by reason, and Is erected into Its own all-sufflclent voucher and justification. There never was such an instrument devised for consecrating... | |
| Pokala Lakshmi Narasu - 1907 - 302 pages
...these times the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every intense feeling,...justifying itself by reason, and is erected into its own all-efficient voucher and justification. There never was a better instrument devised for consecrating... | |
| Hector Macpherson - 1907 - 354 pages
...persuaded, in these times, the greatest intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. . . . There never was such an instrument devised for consecrating all deep-seated prejudices." Intuitionalism, Mill admitted, even after his father's book on the ' Analysis of the Mind ' had been... | |
| James Seth - 1912 - 404 pages
...these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief and every intense...instrument devised for consecrating all deepseated prejudices.'1 Empiricism is ' the doctrine of the school of Locke and of Bentham,' as opposed to that... | |
| Michael Hendrick Fitch - 1912 - 440 pages
...these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines, and institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief, and every intense...with the obligation of justifying itself by reason." John Stuart Mill in "Autobiography," pp. 225-6. The intuitive theory adopted, for its main support,... | |
| Michael Hendrick Fitch - 1912 - 438 pages
...support of false doctrines, and institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief, and _ every intense feeling, of which the origin is not...with the obligation of justifying itself by reason." John Stuart Mill in "Autobiography," pp. 225-li. The intuitive theory adopted, for its main support,... | |
| Michael Hendrick Fitch - 1914 - 322 pages
...these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief, and every intense...with the obligation of justifying itself by reason." William James, the psychologist, perhaps the highest authority on this subject in the United States,... | |
| John Morley - 1921 - 262 pages
...these tunes, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every intense feeling,...devised for consecrating all deep-seated prejudices." The Logic was an elaborate attempt to perform the practical task of dislodging intuitive philosophy,... | |
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