 | Medicine - 1799 - 570 pages
...perifh. But Dr Darwin, throughout his whole work, inftead of limiting the fenfe of the term Idea to that contraction, or motion, or configuration of the fibres, which conftitute the immediate organ of fenfe, ufes it occafionally to exprefs alfo a ftate of the fpirit of animation, thus indifferently making... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Science - 1800 - 676 pages
...tongue. 7. The word idea has various meanings in the writers of metaphyfic : it is here ufed limply for thofe notions of external things, which our organs...part of the work. Synonymous with the word idea, we fliall fometimes ufe the words fenfual motion in contradiftinction to mufcular motion. 8. The word... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 552 pages
...thofe of the immediate organs of fenfe. Thefe fibrous motions are thus diftinguifhed from thefenforial motions above mentioned. 6. The external organs of...defined a contraction, or motion, or configuration, ration, of the fibres, which conftitute the immediate organ of fenfe ; which will be explained at large... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Knowledge, Theory of - 1803 - 238 pages
..., " The word idea has various meanings in (f the writers of metaphyfic : It is here *' ufed simply for thofe notions of external " things, which our...; and is •' defined, a contraction or motion, or con" figuration of the fibres, which conftitute " the immediate organ of fenfe f."~_Mr M'UME, who was... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...metaphysic: it is here used simply for those notions of external things, which our organs of sense bring us acquainted with originally; and is defined...or motion, or configuration, of the fibres, which constitute the immediate organ of sense; which will be explained at large in another part of the work.... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - Classical literature - 1822 - 614 pages
..." has various meanings in the writers of me" taphyfic : It is here ufed fimply for thofe no" tions of external things, which our organs of " fenfe bring...fibres, which conftitute " the immediate organ of fenfe f." — Mr HUME, who was lefs of a phyfiologift than Dr DARWIN, has made ufe of a language by no means... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 432 pages
...metaphysic : it is here used simply for those notions of external things, which our organs of sense bring us acquainted with originally ; and is defined,...contraction or motion, or configuration of the fibres, which constitute the immediate organ of sense."* Mr. Hume, who was less of a physiologist than Dr. Darwin,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...metaphysic : it is here used simply for those notions of external things, which our organs of sense bring us acquainted with originally ; and is defined,...or motion, or configuration of the fibres, which, constitute the immediate organ of sense." f Mr. Hume, who was less of a physiologist than Dr. Darwin,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 430 pages
...metaphysic : it is here used simply for those notions of external things, which our organs of sense bring us acquainted with originally ; and is defined,...contraction, or motion, or configuration of the fibres, which constitute the immediate organ of sense." f Mr. Hume, who was less of a physiologist than Dr. Darwin,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...metaphysic : it is here used simply for those notions of external things, which our organs of sense bring us acquainted with originally ; and is defined,...contraction, or motion, or configuration of the fibres, which constitute the immediate organ of sense." f Mr. Hume, who was less of a physiologist than Dr. Darwin,... | |
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The word idea has various meanings in the writers of metaphysic : it is here used simply for those notions of external things, which our organs of sense bring us acquainted with originally ; and is defined, a contraction, or motion, or configuration of... 
