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...n is daily life; it is the life with wisdom, and the wisdom in life – not metaphysics.) Are there phenomena without history, and things without hi... ... Pure philosophical concepts are not to be found. This is a dialectic of metaphysics; and similarly, it is metaphysics of dialectic. (As if people... ...g values: ”true,” ”false,” and ”both true and false.” The ancient Indian metaphysics considered four possible values of a statement: ”true (only),” ... ...ssert nothing, they contain neither knowledge nor error…" (It is not that metaphysics asserts nothing, but that we never properly reach it, either s... ... Ibn Sina and Thomas not so much with respect to logic as with respect to metaphysics. Is there not, perhaps, a confusion here of epistemological an...

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...ndamental basis. In his ‘Essay on Man,’ his morals connect themselves with metaphysics. The metaphys- ics had been gathered together in his chance ecl...

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...y did not wane in the time. I have always had a queer little twist towards metaphysics in my mind. I have always been given to para- doxes about space...

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...tharine looked at Ralph Denham, who was now pound- ing his way through the metaphysics of metaphor with Rodney, and was reminded of his talk that Sund... ...uld never tell which book she wanted to read in bed, poetry, biography, or metaphysics. “What do you read in bed, Katharine?” she asked, as they walke...

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...han several observations Madame Merle had already made. Isabel was fond of metaphysics, but was unable to ac- company her friend into this bold analys...

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...rest. He had long come to the conclusion that nothing amused him more than metaphysics, but he was not so sure of their efficacy in the affairs of lif...

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...and the eldest sister in particular, who was distinguished by a talent for metaphysics, the laws of hydraulic pressure, and the rights of human kind, ...

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... its imperial influence on men; language contained all the great and sound metaphysics, he was wont to say; and a word once made and generally underst...

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...are badly understood by laymen and have led to the ostensible merger of physics and metaphysics; (3) The eventual acceptance by the scientific commu... ...s the sad outcome of the blurring of contemporary distinctions between physics and metaphysics. Modern science borders on speculation and attempts,... ...rations regarding the Existence of God Occasionalism is a variation upon Cartesian metaphysics. The latter is the most notorious case of dualism (m...

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...Blending a subtle cocktail of Physics and Metaphysics, and building on inspiration from cutting edge thinkers, this new age opus takes the reader beyond the edge of modern science and into a higher dimensional realm where consciousness dictates its own destiny throug...

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...tely taken wing, But like a hawk encumber’d with his hood,— Explaining metaphysics to the nation— I wish he would explain his Explanation. Y... ...han ocean, On seeing his own chimney smoke, felt glad; But not knowing metaphysics, had no notion Of the true reason of his not being sad, ... ...nds or backs are bent. Some waltz; some draw; some fathom the abyss Of metaphysics; others are content With music; the most moderate shine as ... ...rk Within; and what seest thou? A dubious spark. But I ‘m relapsing into metaphysics, That labyrinth, whose clue is of the same Construction... ...nto Fifteen” 318 But here again, why will I thus entangle Myself with metaphysics? None can hate So much as I do any kind of wrangle; And...

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...as of life and thought as clearly as he could. All of phi- losophy, all of metaphysics that is, seems to him to be a dis- cussion of the relations of ...

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...ice, which would be to these hard theological questions what morals are to metaphysics in philosophy.” D’Artagnan began to be tired, and so did the cu...

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...y did not wane in the time. I have always had a queer little twist towards metaphysics in my mind. I have always been given to para- doxes about space...

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...e honte in de scribing his spiritual condition, and is no more daunted by metaphysics than the latter is by arguments on poli tics and sport. To att...

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... lies had come of it somehow, though I didn’t know how. This was a case of metaphysics, at least as difficult for Joe to deal with, as for me. But Joe... ...eal with, as for me. But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it. “There’s one thing you may be...

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...d is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman ...

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...pposed to each other have identity. This saying is dialectical and contrary to metaphysics. "Oppose each other" refers to the mutual exclusion or th...

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...ogy, and of a very accomplished repre sentative of the eighteenth century metaphysics, M. Gergonne, on logic, under the name of Philosophy of the Sci... ... of view with that of the modern political economy, and with the Hartleian metaphysics. Malthus’s population principle was quite as 61 John Stuart Mi... ...re, never became in the smallest degree reconciled to the innate principle metaphysics. He cultivated more and more a kind of German religion, a relig... ... (at least in England) few, but addicted chiefly to the opposite school of metaphysics, the ontological and “innate principles” school. I therefore di... ...f my own powers as an original thinker, except in abstract science (logic, metaphysics, and the theoretic principles of political economy and politics... ...ocks to human improvement. This tendency has its source in the intuitional metaphysics which characterized the reaction of the nineteenth century agai... ...al light on some of the disputed questions in the domain of psychology and metaphysics. After the completion of the book on Hamilton, I applied myself... ...now have the benefit. Admirably adapted for a class book of the Experience Metaphysics, it only required to be enriched, and in some cases corrected, ...

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...s op- ponents; now grow severely logical, or suddenly rise to the realm of metaphysics. (This last resource was one he very frequently employed.) He w...

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...left; yet they only are wise who know that they know nothing. “Pity that all Metaphysics had hitherto proved so inexpressibly unproductive! 36 SARTOR... ...ceeds to remind us of what we knew well already: that however it may be with Metaphysics, and other abstract Science originating in the Head (Verstand...

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...rters with economic facts, but dwells usually in the regions of theory and metaphysics. When he descends from these regions, he is much more at the me...

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...in not only self-consciousness but self-understanding. THE STATUE. This is metaphysics, Juan. Why the devil should—[to the Devil] I BEG your pardon. T...

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...is which are the essence of practical moral vigor; and we have the love of metaphysics and mys- ticism which carry one’s interests beyond the sur- fac... ...losophy been contrasted unfavorably with sensation. It is a commonplace of metaphysics that God’s knowledge cannot be discursive but must be intui- ti... ..., by briefly enumerating what she can do for religion. If she will abandon metaphysics and deduction for criticism and induction, and frankly transfor...

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...igible meaning to thought, it gener ates nothing better than the mystical metaphysics of the Pythagoreans or the V eds. With respect to practical imp...

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...s oppo- nents; now grow severely logical, or suddenly rise to the realm of metaphysics. (This last resource was one he very frequently employed.) He w... ...own essence of life while that es- sence itself can only be the subject of metaphysics, even the manifestation of the force of free will in human bein... ...use forms the subject of history, while free will itself is the subject of metaphysics. In the experimental sciences what we know we call the laws of ...

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... “My mother is like old George the Third,” said the Vicar, “she objects to metaphysics.” “I object to what is wrong, Camden. I say, keep hold of a few...

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...lful in his trade (after the man- ner of his nation, which in breeches and metaphysics—in inexpressibles and incomprehensibles—may instruct all Eu- ro...