First principles with a vengeance, and the sunlight turning tears to diamonds as they rolled down those sun-coloured cheeks!
This happens with regard to the specific nature, on the part of the soul itself: thus the understanding of first principles is called a natural habit.
Nevertheless, all intelligible things are related to first principles.
And as every judgment of speculative reason proceeds from the natural knowledge of first principles, so every judgment of practical reason proceeds from principles known naturally, as stated above (Q.
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals, that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles.
By Herbert Spencer, author of “First Principles of Philosophy,” etc.
But this night, after algebra and physics, and an attempt at a sonnet, he got into bed and opened "First Principles.
First Principles" is not wholly destitute of a certain literary power,' said one of them.
I can engage to teach young men, upon a proper observance of first principles.
It is a question of the study and practice of first principles.
I told them, it depended upon a knowledge of first principles, and the power to apply them.
This was much more important than the most drastic Fugitive Slave Law, for it indicated a change in first principles.
He was eminently practical; and he was not less but more practical for realizing the supreme practical importance of first principles.
These suggestions were open to Spencer's consideration long before the last edition of First Principles appeared.
Although the First Principles is divided into two Parts, dealing respectively with the Unknowable and the Knowable, we have not by any means done with the former when we turn from the First Part to the Second.
I mean that in First Principles, which must be regarded as his general survey of the philosophy of science, there is no searching analysis of the salient types of relationship which enter into the texture of this very complex world.
This disease of desire having especial relation to the great art of Exchange, or Commerce, we must, in order to complete our code of first principles, shortly state the nature and limits of that art.
Now a man cannot form a judgment of this kind in matters of faith, since he cannot trace them back to first principles, by which all our judgments are guided.
Then again in the noble art of politics, who thinks of first principles and of true ideas?
It comes first--because it is a system of First Principles: but these first principles could only be elicited by a philosophy which has realised the meaning of a mental experience, gathered by interpreting the facts of Nature.
They assumed, that God has given us first principles, and that He, having revealed them it would ill become us to scrutinize them.
In every branch of real knowledge there must be first principles, whose truth is known intuitively, without reasoning, either probable or demonstrative.
It might have been expected, that Reid would have built up his own philosophy according to the inductive plan, and would have despised that assumption of first principles, with which he taunts his opponents.
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