This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... and logicians on the subject. The property, which we call value, belongs to that class called relative properties, relative modes, or relations. To all the strictures and speculations with which the reviewer has unhappily perplexed himself on the subject of relation, this is a sufficient answer. There are one ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... and logicians on the subject. The property, which we call value, belongs to that class called relative properties, relative modes, or relations. To all the strictures and speculations with which the reviewer has unhappily perplexed himself on the subject of relation, this is a sufficient answer. There are one or two of his assertions, nevertheless, which may afford you amusement if not instruction. He maintains, 1. That there is nothing relative but terms; or at least he calls Hobbes's remark to this effect " profound," and therefore it may be presumed that he considers it to be true. 2. That quantity and substance cannot be relative. 3. That quart and pint bottles are absolute bottles. " 4. That Dr. Brown made use of the word relative as an occult cause to explain whatever he did not understand. In what sense Hobbes's remark i- true I should be sincerely indebted to the reviewer or any one else to explain. It seems pretty much on a level, in point of correctness and intelligibility, with another remark of the same philosopher, that truth consists in words and not in things, which induced Leibnitz to say that he appeared to him an ultra-nominalist, " plus quam nominalis." If by the proposition, that there is nothing relative but terms, it is meant to assert, that there are no relations existing between things, but only between words, the slightest consideration is sufficient to show its groundlessness. I may quote the words of a writer, who, according to the Westminster critic, " hardly did justice to his own metaphysical powers," and whom I cite on the present occasion on that account, rather than from any admiration on my own part of the manner in which he treats the subject. " When beings," says he, " are produced, we must not imagine...
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