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. 1820 Excerpt: ...to the voice of reason: And, if we yield to the mere force of our prejudice, we only let ourselves down to the level of untaught man, by indulging the mere vagary of our imaginations. Whoever proceeds in this way, can have no pretension to the name of a philosopher.--If, indeed, any valid objection shall be laid ...
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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. 1820 Excerpt: ...to the voice of reason: And, if we yield to the mere force of our prejudice, we only let ourselves down to the level of untaught man, by indulging the mere vagary of our imaginations. Whoever proceeds in this way, can have no pretension to the name of a philosopher.--If, indeed, any valid objection shall be laid against the evidence of the analysis whereupon the proofs rest; this will justify the refusal of our assent. But, without this, we have only left the alternative to act like men, or act like children; that is, to hold by the verdict of our reason, or still to hug our natural prejudice, merely because we have been long nursed by it, and are grown to a habitual and pitiable, desire of it. CHAPTER III. OF JUDGMENT AND RELATIONS. SECTION FIRST. QF JUDGMENT AND ITS OBJECTS, IN GENERAL. It has been justly observed, that the various operations of the mind appear, upon a first view of them, to be so infinitely numerous, diversified, and intricate, that it threatens to be an impossible task to unravel and arrange them; but that upon a closer examination the prospect clears up, and we find all these operations are reduceable under a comparatively small number of faculties, whose different natures admit of being investigated and described. The truth of this remark will conspicuously appear, in the course of the present chapter, from the vast extent of province which will be found under the jurisdiction of one single faculty. To that Intellectual Power by which we discern the Relations between Things, the name of Judgment has very properly been appropriated. A simple description of the primary and most general operations of this faculty, therefore, and of its general extent of province, is the first consideration which I would in this place suggest for attentio...
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