 To adopt a distinction familiar in the writings of the Scotch metaphysicians, and especially of Reid, the causes with which I concern myself are not efficient but physical causes. They are causes in that sense alone in which one physical fact is said...  Proceedings - Страница 121написао/ла Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 580 страница
...certainty. He even covertly impugns it. Discussing the Law of Universal Causation, he observes : " Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any...exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion. The notion of causation is deemed to imply a mysterious and most powerful tie, such as cannot, or at... | |
 | William Adam (of Matlock Baths, Eng.) - 1862 - 460 страница
...They are causes in that sense alone in which one physical fact may be said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any such causes exist at all, he is not called upon to give an opinion. He neither affirms nor denies their existence. He treats... | |
 | Théodule Ribot - 1873 - 382 страница
...They are causes in that sense alone, in which one physical fact is said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any...exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion. The notion of causation is deemed, by the schools of metaphysics most in vogue at the present moment,... | |
 | Thomas Penyngton Kirkman - 1876 - 368 страница
...of the cause of any phenomenon, I do not mean a cause which is not itself a phenomenon.' .... ' Of efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any such...at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion.' . . . . ' The only notion of a cause, which the theory of induction requires, is such a notion as can... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880 - 546 страница
...Cause? — grasped there and then the clearest and most potent thought that ever uplifted man or angel. My notion is that this Cause is a conscious and intelligent...Causation. What I have further here to say about the Cause will be little more than an examination, for the instruction of my younger friends, of what distinguished... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880 - 540 страница
...Cause? — grasped there and then the clearest and most potent thought that ever uplifted man or angel. My notion is that this Cause is a conscious and intelligent...verb efficere has a meaning, nor that there is an effectitm, but he will not hear of an efficiens. That, forsooth, did not concern the theory of Universal... | |
 | Benjamin Shaw - 1880 - 86 страница
...(Logiaof • Induction, i. 338, 3rd Edit.) : " Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether.any such causes exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion. The notion of causation is deemed by the schools of metaphysics, most, in vogue at the present moment... | |
 | George Lyon Turner - 1880 - 388 страница
...physical fact is said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether such causes exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion." 3 § 231. Now I cannot help remarking that, candid as seem these avowals, charmingly modest as are... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1884 - 660 страница
...They are causes in that sense alone in which one physical fact is said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any such causes exist at all, I am not posed of separate fibres ; this collective older is made up of particular sequences, obtaining invariably... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1900 - 676 страница
...is said to be the cause of another. Of the efficient causes of phenomena, or whether any such canses exist at all, I am not called upon to give an opinion. The notion of causation is deemed, by the schools of metaphysics most in vogue at the present moment,... | |
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