 To what then, it may be asked, does this statement amount ? Merely to this, that the mind is so formed that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects, are followed by correspondent sensations, and that these sensations (which...  Blackwood's Magazine - Síða 2501847Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 772 síður
...knowledge through the agency of God. Dr. Reid's doctrine of perception is thus summed up by Mr. Stewart: "To what then, it may be asked, does this statement...is so formed that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects, arc followed by correspondent sensations and that these sensations,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 síður
...knowledge through the agency of God. Dr. Eeid's doctrine of perception is thus summed up by Mr. Stewart : " To what, then, it may be asked, does this statement...is so formed that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects are followed by correspondent sensations, and that these sensations,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 626 síður
...knowledge through the agency of God. Dr. Reid's doctrine of perception is thus summed up by Mr. Stewart : " To what, then, it may be asked, does this statement...is so formed that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects are followed by correspondent sensations, and that these sensations,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1862 - 584 síður
...knowledge through the agency of God. Dr. Reid's doctrine of perception is thus summed up by Mr. Stewart : " To what, then, it may be asked, does this statement...is so formed that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects are followed by correspondent sensations, and that these sensations,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 síður
...consisted in his having " had courage to lay aside all the hypothetical language of his predecessors concerning perception, and to exhibit the difficulty...its magnitude by a plain statement of the fact."* But if he misunderstood that language, and combated, as Sir James affirms (p. 164) "imaginary antagonists,"... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 síður
...the body is a mystery, which has never yet been unfolded ; but, singular as it may appear, Dr. Reid was the first person who had courage to lay completely...aside all the common hypothetical language concerning pereeption, and in exhibit the difficulty in all its magnitude, by a plain statement of the fact. To... | |
 | James Frederick Ferrier - 1866 - 602 síður
...of Eeid's doctrine, which must be regarded as a perfectly faithful representation. " Dr Eeid," says Mr Stewart, " was the first person who had courage...is so formed that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense, by external objects, axe followed by corresponding sensations, and that these... | |
 | Robert Stodart Wyld - 1875 - 590 síður
...principle with the physical world. " Dr. Reid/' says he, " was the first person who had courage to lay aside all the common hypothetical language concerning...is so formed that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects are followed by corresponding sensations ; and that these sensations,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 826 síður
...the body is a mystery, which has never yet been unfolded ; but, singular as it may appear, Dr. Reid was the first person who had courage to lay completely...by a plain statement of the fact. To what then, it maybe asked, does the statement amount? Merely to this ; that the mind is so formed, that certain impressions... | |
 | University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 síður
...attitude towards his master may be judged from the following quotation: "Dr. Reid was the first person to lay completely aside all the common hypothetical language concerning perception, and exhibit the difficulty in all its magnitude by a plain statement of the facts." He credits Reid with... | |
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