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... dependent for its start , and also for the final test of all its results , upon the accuracy and com- pleteness of the underlying Science of Observation . The inductive method determines the foundations of the science ; the deductive ...
... dependent for its start , and also for the final test of all its results , upon the accuracy and com- pleteness of the underlying Science of Observation . The inductive method determines the foundations of the science ; the deductive ...
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... dependent judgment , -must be accounted for by reference to a general truth appli- cable to all examples of the same form of experience . Moral Judgments , therefore , take rank as judgments which apply a definite standard in particular ...
... dependent judgment , -must be accounted for by reference to a general truth appli- cable to all examples of the same form of experience . Moral Judgments , therefore , take rank as judgments which apply a definite standard in particular ...
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Henry Calderwood. is variable , because dependent upon national sanction . There may be various standards of measurement , but only one standard of morality . Truthfulness , and noth else , must be the standard of morality in utterance ...
Henry Calderwood. is variable , because dependent upon national sanction . There may be various standards of measurement , but only one standard of morality . Truthfulness , and noth else , must be the standard of morality in utterance ...
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... dependent for their validity on an induction of particulars ; but self - evident truths , known independently of induction . They are as clearly recognised when a single testing case is presented for adjudication , as when a thousand ...
... dependent for their validity on an induction of particulars ; but self - evident truths , known independently of induction . They are as clearly recognised when a single testing case is presented for adjudication , as when a thousand ...
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... dependent upon a philosophic process . The ordinary moral judgment deals with the concrete , not with the general or the abstract . Men do not enunciate general truths , when they decide on the rightness or wrongness of an action ...
... dependent upon a philosophic process . The ordinary moral judgment deals with the concrete , not with the general or the abstract . Men do not enunciate general truths , when they decide on the rightness or wrongness of an action ...
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Page 129 - the doing good to mankind, in " obedience to the will of God, and for the " sake of everlasting happiness...
Page 19 - GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Page 129 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 129 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Page 50 - The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.
Page 129 - For there is no such finis ultimus (utmost aim), nor summum bonum (greatest good) , as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers. Nor can a man any more live whose desires are at an end than he whose senses and imaginations are at a stand. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.