It is impossible, however, to investigate universals except through induction, since things which are said to be from abstraction will be known only by induction.
Secret denotes that the thing isknown only to the party or parties concerned; as, a secret conspiracy.
Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which contain more than one atom of chromium.
It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.
A few others, known only by their names, such as Alessandro Carpi, or Cesare Testa, may be sought for in the work of Cittadella.
Filippo Menzani isknown only as the attached disciple and faithful copyist of his master.
While that secret struggle, known only to God and to myself, was going on, I had often to wipe off the cold perspiration which came on my brow.
What would my innocence, known only to God, avail me, when the whole world would believe me guilty?
A tapir-like mammal, having canine teeth, known only by fossil remains found in Tertiary rocks.
A large marine reptile, known only by fossil vertebræ and other bones, found in oolite rocks.
A fish, belonging to Acanthodii, known only by fossil remains in Old Red Sandstone.
If these Forms or Objects called absolute are known, they can be known only by an absolute Subject, or the Form of a cognizant Subject: that is, by God or the Gods.
Parmenides here argues that if these Forms or Ideas are known by us, they can be known only as relative to us: and that if they be not relative to us, they cannot be known by us at all.
This Supreme Entity can be known only by an intellectual intuition of the Spirit, transcending itself, and emancipating itself from its own limits.
He received the sacred cord, and divers amulets or talismans; and was then invested with the sacred Word or Sublime Name, known only to the initiated, the Triliteral A.
The Jewish-Greek School of Alexandria is known only by two of its Chiefs, Aristobulus and Philo, both Jews of Alexandria in Egypt.
Since they regard consciousness as passive and receptive, they have to maintain that relations can be known only in so far as they are apprehended in a manner analogous to the contents themselves.
External appearances, however, as Kant recognises, can be known onlyin and through representations.
For even if we could directly experience things in themselves, and apprehend them as conforming to the categories, such conformity would still be known only as contingent.
Since the self is known only as appearance, it cannot be asserted to be the conditioning ground of appearance.
As attraction in the planet is known only as a movement admitting of a stated numerical expression, so life in the plant is to be known only as decomposition and recomposition taking place under certain circumstances.
They promised to show me lovelier spots than any I had met with yet; sacred corners, known only to themselves, down by the sea, where the arbute and laurustinus grew like trees, and children of the ocean.
And oh, I forgot to tell you there was also a kind of fiddle, the secret of which is known only to the Shanar priesthood.
By certain mysterious signs, known only to the family Brahman, it had been decided ten years ago that the soul of our host's elder brother had incarnated in this blood-thirsty vampire-bat.
Mary's secret died with her, and the remorse that is busy at the heart of Percy, is known only to his Maker.
From that moment, if distrust existed any longer in the breasts of the two functionaries of Porto Ferrajo, it was so effectually smothered as to be known only to themselves.
Whiton, Gloria Patri, 38--"The Unseen can be known only by the seen which comes forth from it.
But matter is known only as the operation of force, and force is the product of Will.
The all-generating or Paternal Life which is hidden from us can be known only by the generated or Filial Life in which it reveals itself.
But God is a superhuman being; God is known only by himself.
That God is the creator, all men could know from Nature; but what this God is in person, can be known only by special grace, is the object of a special faith.
The divine assuredly is known only by means of the divine--God is known only by himself.
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