The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, Volume 8Science Press, 1911 - Electronic journals |
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... mind has tackled and tackled again , tirelessly , tenaciously . Obviously the problem is hopeless from the human point of regard ( save , indeed , at the cost of human reason , as witness Christian Science ! ) . Obviously a shift of ...
... mind has tackled and tackled again , tirelessly , tenaciously . Obviously the problem is hopeless from the human point of regard ( save , indeed , at the cost of human reason , as witness Christian Science ! ) . Obviously a shift of ...
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... King of Glory , and jealous of his glorification . He was the Lord of Praise , Placable if his mind and ways were guessed , - though only revelation could insure the guessing . The conception PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC METHODS 15.
... King of Glory , and jealous of his glorification . He was the Lord of Praise , Placable if his mind and ways were guessed , - though only revelation could insure the guessing . The conception PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC METHODS 15.
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... mind , to discover a world of moral law and life , wherein the free spirit of man moves toward his determined ends ... mind's essential nature itself " ( p . 38 ) . Later it is said that " not merely are the fully formed products of ...
... mind , to discover a world of moral law and life , wherein the free spirit of man moves toward his determined ends ... mind's essential nature itself " ( p . 38 ) . Later it is said that " not merely are the fully formed products of ...
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... mind " should operate upon " crude elemental material , " when , according to the same theory , this material is merely an abstraction from the " fully formed products , " and not a preexistent entity , is extremely mystifying to the ...
... mind " should operate upon " crude elemental material , " when , according to the same theory , this material is merely an abstraction from the " fully formed products , " and not a preexistent entity , is extremely mystifying to the ...
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... Mind , and Ultimate Purpose , " and the author's object is , if possible , to discover proofs of this in nature . With this in view he begins with a detailed account of the distribution of plants and animals in the world , and as shown ...
... Mind , and Ultimate Purpose , " and the author's object is , if possible , to discover proofs of this in nature . With this in view he begins with a detailed account of the distribution of plants and animals in the world , and as shown ...
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absolute American Philosophical Association analysis argument assertion believe Bergson called character Columbia University conception consciousness correlation criticism defined definition discussion distinction doctrine elements empiricism ence epistemological esthetic ethical existence existential experience experimental external F. C. S. Schiller fact feeling function G. E. Moore human ical idea ideal idealist identity implies individual interest interpretation James JOURNAL judgment knowledge logical mathematical matter meaning ment mental merely metaphysics method mind monism moral nature object observation organic perception philosophy physical Plato position possible pragmatism pragmatist present principle problem Professor Dewey propositions psychology pure question RALPH BARTON PERRY realist reality reason regard relation religion Russell scientific SCIENTIFIC METHODS seems sensation sense social soul specious present theory things thought tion true truth Western Philosophical Association whole words
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Page 17 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 26 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; and the cloud is not rent under them. He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
Page 467 - That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all sick persons, and young children; and to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 17 - So when the Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not shrink.
Page 17 - Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Page 252 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...
Page 547 - To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may involve — what sensations we are to expect from it, and what reactions we must prepare.
Page 31 - In Paradise what have I to win ? Therein I seek not to enter, but only to have Nicolete my sweet lady that I love so well. For into Paradise go none but such folk as I shall tell thee now : Thither go these same old priests, and halt old men and maimed, who all day and night cower continually before the altars and in the crypts ; and such folk as wear old amices and old clouted frocks, and naked folk and shoeless, and covered with sores, perishing of hunger and thirst, and of cold, and of little...
Page 55 - Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity embodying in splendid edifices the passionate aspiration after the perfect from which all great work springs.
Page 252 - ... a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.