An Examination of Dr. Reid's Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense: Dr. Beattie's Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, and Dr. Oswald's Appeal to Common Sense in Behalf of ReligionJ. Johnson, 1775 - 371 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 16 - Another original principle, implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us.
الصفحة lx - The hypothesis I mean is, That nothing is perceived but what is in the mind which perceives it : That we do not really perceive things that are external, but only certain images and pictures of them imprinted upon the mind, which are called impressions and ideas.
الصفحة 328 - The necelîity of a caufe of whatever events arife is an eflential principle, a primary perception of the underftanding ; nothing being more palpably abfurd than the notion of a change which has been derived from nothing, and of which there is no reafon to be given ; of an exiftence which has begun, but never was produced ; of a body, for inftance, that has ceafed to move, but has not been ßopped; or that has begun to move, without being moved.
الصفحة 89 - A child that has a good musical ear may be put to sleep or to dance, may be made merry or sorrowful, by the modulation of musical sounds.
الصفحة 2 - Something was done in this field of knowledge by Descartes, very much by Mr. Locke, but most of all by Dr. Hartley, who has thrown more useful light upon the theory of the mind, than Newton did upon the theory of the natural world.
الصفحة 50 - The sceptic asks me, Why do you believe the existence of the external object which you perceive ? This belief, Sir, is none of my manufacture ; it came from the mint of nature ; it bears her image and superscription ; and if it is not right, the fault is not mine : I even took it upon trust, and without suspicion. Reason, says the...
الصفحة 47 - Nor can any man fhow, by any good argument, that all our fenfations might not have been as they are, though no body, nor quality of body, had ever exifted.
الصفحة 83 - In a word, if credulity were the effect of reasoning and experience, it must grow up and gather strength, in the same proportion as reason and experience do. But if it is the gift of nature, it will be strongest in childhood, and limited and restrained by experience ; and the most superficial view of human life shows, that the last is really the case, and not the first.
الصفحة 128 - When we fee how miferably bewildered the bulk of mankind are, one would think that this principle of truth is like the god Baal, who, when he was...
الصفحة 50 - Reason, says the sceptic, is the only judge of truth, and you ought to throw off every opinion and every belief that is not grounded on reason.