Le positivisme anglais: étude sur Stuart MillG. Baillière, 1864 - 157 pages |
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abstraits agree anglaise antécédent attributs axiomes Baillière body c'est-à-dire cause chaleur circonstances circumstances colder coldness conclusion Condillac conséquent corps deposition of dew dewed éléments ÉLIPHAS LÉVI ÉMILE DE GIRARDIN ÉMILE SAISSET expérience facts feelings first froid que l'air fructueuse generous heat Hegel idées induction inference instances known l'autre l'esprit l'expérience l'induction laws logiciens lois make manières d'être Max Müller means ment méthode méthode de concordance méthode des résidus mind morale name name only nature necessary notion opérations particulars phé phénomènes philosophes phrases ples polished position pouvons première preuve primitif prince Albert proposition de chose proposition générale propositions qui concernent propriétés raisonnement Regent street rosée same science scolastiques seconde sensations sera seule sition states of consciousness Stuart Mill substance surface syllogisme TAINE température termes texture théorie thing tion triangle true ture unfolds vapour variations various Voilà voulons dire simplement whole word Worthy of honour
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Page 61 - The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.
Page 42 - The mortality of John, Thomas, and others is, after all, the whole evidence we have for the mortality of the Duke of Wellington. Not one iota is added to the proof by interpolating a general proposition.
Page 44 - All inference is from particulars to particulars; general propositions are merely registers of such inferences already made, and short formulae for making more; the major premise of a syllogism, consequently, is a formula of this description, and the conclusion is not an inference drawn from the formula, but an inference drawn according to the formula, the real logical antecedent, or premise, being the particular facts from which the general proposition was collected by induction.
Page 78 - It thus appears that the instances in which much dew is deposited, which are very various, agree in this, and, so far as we are able to 'observe, in this only, that they either radiate heat rapidly or conduct it slowly : qualities between which there is no other circumstance of agreement, than that by virtue of either, the body tends to lose heat from the surface more rapidly than it can be restored from within. The instances, on the contrary, in which no dew, or but a small quantity of it, is formed...
Page 102 - In distant parts of the stellar regions, where the phenomena may be entirely unlike those with which we are acquainted, it would be folly to affirm confidently that this general law prevails, any more than those special ones which we have found to hold universally on our own planet. The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation...
Page 57 - We have no ulterior test to which we subject experience in general ; but we make experience its own test. Experience testifies, that among the uniformities which it exhibits, or seems to exhibit, some are more to be relied on than others ; and uniformity, therefore...
Page 70 - Is it a fact that the object dewed is colder than the air ? Certainly not, one would at first be inclined to say ; for what is to make it so ? But...
Page 144 - ... supprimée, un ordre tel que la première appelât la seconde et la seconde la troisième; s'il établissait ainsi que la quantité pure est le commencement nécessaire de la nature, et que la pensée est le terme extrême auquel la nature est tout entière suspendue...
Page 57 - ... while we should refuse credence to any testimony which asserted that there were men wearing their heads underneath their shoulders. The first assertion was more credible than the latter. But why more credible? So long as neither phenomenon had been actually witnessed, what reason was there for finding the one harder to be believed than the other? Apparently because there is less constancy in the colors of animals than in the general structure of their anatomy.
Page 145 - ... suspendue; si ensuite , isolant les éléments de ces données, il montrait qu'ils doivent se combiner comme ils sont combinés, et non autrement ; s'il prouvait enfin qu'il n'ya point d'autres éléments, et qu'il ne peut y en avoir d'autres , il aurait esquissé une métaphysique sans em].