 All our knowledge, both of time and place, is essentially relative. When a man has acquired the habit of putting words together, without troubling himself to form the thoughts which ought to correspond to them, it is easy for him to frame an antithesis...  Matter and Motion - Page 20by James Clerk Maxwell - 1876 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 626 pages
...has acquired a habit of putting words together, without troubling himself to form the thoughts that ought to correspond to them, it is easy for him to...of the absolute position of a point as an instance oi the limitation of our faculties. Anyone, however, who will try to imagine the state of a mind conscious... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1877 - 836 pages
...the metaphysicians will digest it : — "Bat, as there is nothing to distinguish one portion of lime from another except the different events which occur...our ignorance of the absolute position of a point as in instance of the limitation of our faculties. Any one, however, who will try to imagine the state... | |
 | Robert Henry Smith - Graphic methods - 1889 - 318 pages
...frame an antithesis between this relative knowledge and a so-called absolute knowledge, and to point our ignorance of the absolute position of a point as an instance of the limitation of our faculties. Anyone, however, who will try to imagine the state of a mind conscious of knowing the absolute position... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 738 pages
...relative. When a man has acquired the habit of putting words together, without troubling himself to firm the thoughts which ought to correspond to them, it...to point out our ignorance of the absolute position "fa point as an instance of the limitation of our faculties. Anyone, however, who will try to imagine... | |
 | William Kingdon Clifford - Mathematics - 1891 - 312 pages
...weight of this postulate in the following words : — All our knowledge, both of time and place, is relative. When a man has acquired the habit of putting...mind conscious of knowing the absolute position of i point will ever after be content with our relative knowledge.1 It is of such great value to ascertain... | |
 | Richard De Villamil - Mechanics, Analytic - 1928 - 240 pages
...to correspond to them it is easy for him to frame an antithesis between this relative knowledge and so-called absolute knowledge, and to point out our...as an instance of the limitation of our faculties. Anyone, however, who will try to imagine the state of mind, conscious of knowing the absolute position... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 624 pages
...has acquired a habit of putting words together, without troubling himself to form the thoughts that ought to correspond to them, it is easy for him to...as an instance of the limitation of our faculties. Anyone, however, who will try to imagine the state of a mind conscious of knowing the absolute position... | |
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