 | Robert Eden Scott - Cognition - 1805 - 500 pages
...which there is a felf* evident probability, greater or lefs, according * to circumftances ; and, 152th, That, in the * phenomena of nature, what is to be, will * probably be like to what has been in fimilar * circumftances. ' The neceflary firft principles are what have generally... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1815 - 434 pages
...when applicd to great bodics of men. 12thly, The last prineiple of contingent truths I mention, is, That, in the phenomena of nature, what is to be, will probably be like to what has bcen in similar circumstanees. We must have this conviction as soon as we are capable of... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...man, in which there is a self-evident probability, greater or less according to circumstances. 10. In the phenomena of nature, what is to be, will probably be like to what has been in similar circumstances. First Principles of Necessary Truths. THE first principles... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...especially when applied to great bodies of men. 12. The last principle of contingent truths I mention, is, That, in the phenomena of nature, what is to be, will probably be like to what has been in similar circumstances. We must have this conviction as soon as we are capable of... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - Truth - 1830 - 682 pages
...this Xlth Principle is only a case of the Xllth and last principle of contingent truth,—which is, that " in the phenomena of nature, what is to be, will probably be like to what has been under similar circumstances." It cannot be, he observes, experience which gives us... | |
 | Portia Young - Logic - 1852 - 140 pages
...man, in which there is a self evident probability, greater or less, according to circumstances. 12. That in the phenomena of nature, what is to be, will probably be like to what has been in similar circumstances. — REID, on the Mind. I. THE LOGIC OF JUDGMENT, OB REASONING... | |
 | Robert Anchor Thompson - Christianity - 1855 - 522 pages
...continuance of the course of nature." In his " Intellectual Powers" (p. 451), he lays it down as a principle, that " in the phenomena of nature what is to be will probably be like to what has been." But he presently enunciates the causal law in very different terms (p. 455). " Whatever... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 688 pages
...far as we can remember, employed by either of those philosophers. With Reid it is, " Our conviction that in the phenomena of nature what is to be, will...probably be like what has been in similar circumstances." With Stewart it is, " Our expectation of the continued uniformity of the laws of nature." "An intuitive... | |
 | James McCosh - History - 1860 - 512 pages
...human testimony in matters of fact, and even to human authority in matters of opinion" (450) ; and "that in the phenomena of Nature, what is to be will probably be like to what has been in similar circumstances" (451). A rigid application of the tests of self-evidence... | |
 | Robert Anchor Thompson - 1863 - 922 pages
...of the course of nature." In his " Intellectual Powers," (p. 451,) he lays it down as a principle, that " in the phenomena of nature what is to be will probably be like to what has been." But he presently enunciates the causal law in very different terms (p. 455). " Whatever... | |
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... that there is life and intelligence in our fellow-men "; "that there is a certain regard due ... to human authority in matters of opinion"; "that, in the phenomena of nature, what is to be, will probably be like what has been in similar circumstances. 
