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... limits , are wild and fruitless fancies . To language , then , which is responsible for the extrava- gances of human belief , we must look for the solution of the great enigma . The central truth of language is that viii INTRODUCTION .
... limits , are wild and fruitless fancies . To language , then , which is responsible for the extrava- gances of human belief , we must look for the solution of the great enigma . The central truth of language is that viii INTRODUCTION .
Page viii
... limits , are wild and fruitless fancies . To language , then , which is responsible for the extrava- gances of human belief , we must look for the solution of the great enigma . The central truth of language is that viii INTRODUCTION .
... limits , are wild and fruitless fancies . To language , then , which is responsible for the extrava- gances of human belief , we must look for the solution of the great enigma . The central truth of language is that viii INTRODUCTION .
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... limits of language and the nature of perception , for it shows that thought is in reality but action . To establish so important a conclusion as this , analysis alone will not suffice . The analysis must be accompanied with a synthesis ...
... limits of language and the nature of perception , for it shows that thought is in reality but action . To establish so important a conclusion as this , analysis alone will not suffice . The analysis must be accompanied with a synthesis ...
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... limit the meaning of the language of the ancients by the actual knowledge which they possessed . In this difficulty a knowledge of the nature of language comes to our assistance . Language itself is but a system of symbols representing ...
... limit the meaning of the language of the ancients by the actual knowledge which they possessed . In this difficulty a knowledge of the nature of language comes to our assistance . Language itself is but a system of symbols representing ...
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... limits of language and the nature of perception . Diogenes believed that air was intelligence , or order itself . " That which has knowledge is what men call air ; it is it that regulates and governs all ; and hence is the use of air to ...
... limits of language and the nature of perception . Diogenes believed that air was intelligence , or order itself . " That which has knowledge is what men call air ; it is it that regulates and governs all ; and hence is the use of air to ...
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Page 476 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 346 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 252 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 134 - This therefore being my purpose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent...
Page 394 - I lived in truth, and fed my soul with justice. What I did to men was done in peace, and how I loved G-od, God and my heart well know. I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and a shelter to the stranger. I honored the gods with sacrifices, and the dead with offerings.
Page 128 - When a body is once in motion, it moveth, unless something else hinder it, eternally ; and whatsoever hindreth it, cannot in an instant, but in time, and by degrees, quite extinguish it; and as we see in the water, though the wind cease, the waves give not over rolling for a long time after : so also it happeneth in that motion, which is made in the internal parts of a man, then, when he sees, dreams, &c.
Page 420 - Lu asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, 'While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?' Chi Lu added, 'I venture to ask about death?
Page 406 - He who by His might looked even over the water-clouds, the clouds which gave strength and lit the sacrifice, He who is God above all gods. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice...
Page 476 - If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that 1 go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God...
Page 89 - For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.