 | John James Stewart Perowne - Immortality - 1869 - 180 pages
...or feeling might be inferred ; or given the thought or feeling, the corresponding state of the brain might be inferred ? But how inferred? It is at bottom...other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated, as to enable us to see and feel... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1869 - 858 pages
...inference at all, but of empirical association. You may reply that many of the inferences of science are ot this character ; the inference, for example, that...other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 826 pages
...will deflect a magnetic needle in a definite way ; but the cases differ in this, that the passag_e from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable,...other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds ana senses so expanded, strengthened, end illuminated as to enable us to see and feel... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1869 - 862 pages
...in this, that the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and mat we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution...other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel... | |
 | American periodicals - 1869 - 826 pages
...the corresponding state of the brain might be inferred. Granted, however," the Professor continued, "that a definite thought, and a definite molecular...other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel... | |
 | Jurisprudence - 1869 - 844 pages
...sense, of thought, or of emotion, a certain definite molecular condition is set up in the brain," but " we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...other. They appear together, but we do not know why. " In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised by us, has... | |
 | Missions - 1869 - 802 pages
...The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. We do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other." On these questions " the materialist is helpless. If you ask him, Whence is this matter of which we... | |
 | Theophilus Parvin - Medicine - 1869 - 802 pages
...possess the intellectual organ, nor, apparently, any endowment of the organ which would enable us to span by a process of reasoning, from the one phenomenon to the other." One thing is always to be regretted in the re -publication of English works by the house to which we... | |
 | John Tyndall - Imagination - 1870 - 116 pages
...or feeling might be inferred ; or given the thought or feeling, the corresponding state of the brain might be inferred. But how inferred? It is at bottom...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1870 - 82 pages
...feeling might be inferred ; or, given the thought or feeling, the corresponding state of the brain might be inferred. But how inferred ? It is at bottom...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one phenomehon to the other. They appear together, but we clo not know why. Were our minds and senses so... | |
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... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem ; but the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness... 
