Accordingly he begins this treatise by intimating that he intends to deduce these laws from the first and highest generalities of the subject;[146] and he concludes it by claiming this method of philosophizing as original with himself.
But in order to our philosophizing aright regarding this, two things are first of all to be observed.
In fact, I believe that most of your fiddling crabs and moralizing stumps and philosophizing woodchucks are simply the creatures of a disordered imagination.
Yet it remains as an essential aspect of the process of philosophizing that we should endeavour to bring over to our vision as many other visions as we can succeed in influencing.
Confused and difficult are the ways of our mortality; and after much philosophizing we seem to be only more conscious than ever that the secret of the world is in something else than wisdom.
To suppress the activity of philosophizing is as impossible as to suppress the activity of breathing.
The primordial process of philosophizing and the primal will to philosophize are both of them penetrated through and through, with this ultimate duality of love and malice.
Our time longs for a new interpretation of reality; from the depths of every science wherein for decades philosophizing was despised, the best scholars turn again to a discussion of fundamental conceptions and general principles.
For seventy years there had been nowhere so much philosophizing going on as suddenly sprung up among the scientists of the last decade.
And to this view we are led by the failure of philosophizing on the impersonal plane, which is sure to lose itself in contradiction and impossibility.
But these conceptions are extremely recondite, and have been attained only through centuries of philosophizing and after careful observation and laborious experiment.
The reader has here an opportunity of verifying Galileo's observation, that Kepler's method of philosophizing differed widely from his own.
Galileo probably was thinking of those very laws, when he said of Kepler, "He possesses a bold and free genius, perhaps too much so; but his mode of philosophizing is widely different from mine.
Galileo's own method of philosophizing was widely different; seldom omitting to bring with every new assertion the test of experiment, either directly in confirmation of it, or tending to show its probability and consistency.
It is not the spirit that denies; it is a snake I have disturbed along my path and that has not found my philosophizing over pleasant (like you, perhaps, kind reader) and so I will cut short my digression.
He began to talk again, philosophizing about life generally and his own life.
Oh, my husband has to make his way; he's no time for idling and philosophizing round.
But our visitors did not care for the philosophizing of Mr. Snodgrass --you can spoil almost anything by turning it wrong side out.
When has anybody ever been governed by "the teachings of history" when he was philosophizing or legislating?
He goes to philosophizing upon it, and can find many reasons why knowledge received through the ear makes a more ready and lasting impression than when it comes through the eye.
Wolffian philosophy, emptied of its Christian contents, there arose a weak, vapoury, and self-satisfied philosophizing on the part of the common human reason.
Megacosmus et Microcosmus, in dialogue form discussing in a dilettante, philosophizingstyle natural phenomena, half poetry, half prose, was highly popular in its day.
The philosophizing church fathers, whose darling was Plato, got acquaintance with his philosophical views from its relatively pure reproduction met with in the works of the older Neo-platonists.
Warm hands and feet will aid your philosophizing wonderfully.
I imagine there are very few of us who would agree with some of our philosophers, that 'the pursuit of truth is far more important than the attainment thereof'--that philosophizing is more valuable than philosophy.
Quite early next morning he arose, fresh and eager, all vain philosophizing gone, prepared to hold his own in a big city.
Far from philosophizing on the treatment accorded Nelson, some of the boys made his misfortunes serve to emphasize the reckless awfulness of their own careers, the uncertainty of which was a source of pride and self-congratulation.
The point of view I have in mind will become clearer if I begin with a few preparatory remarks on the motives and difficulties of philosophizing in general.
Repugnant as the mystical style of philosophizing maybe (especially when self-complacent), there is no sort of doubt that it goes with a gift for meeting with certain kinds of phenomenal experience.
But in the case of this elephant the scrupulous showman nipped such philosophizing and all its inconvenient consequences in the bud, by explicitly intimating that larger than any other elephant was all he meant.
The philosophizing of Socrates was limited and restricted by his opposition, partly to the preceding, and partly to the Sophistic philosophy.
It is the chief problem and content of Condillac's philosophizing to carry out this thought, and derive the different functions of the soul out of the sensations of the outer sense.
While thephilosophizing of Zeno is the completion of the Eleatic principle, so is it at the same time the beginning of its dissolution.
Universal Character of the Philosophizing of Socrates 62 7.
The Romish philosophizing is wholly eclectic, as is seen in Cicero, the most important and influential philosophic writer among the Romans.
Besides being a philosopher, he was also a poet and citizen of the world; and hence we find in his philosophizing an absence of strict logical arrangement and precise expression of thought.
The centre of Hume's philosophizing is his criticism of the conception of cause.
This is not so much a philosophy, as a philosophizing or reflecting within the already prescribed limits of positive religion.
In the first Socratic period the Platonic philosophizing became ripe and ready for the reception of Eleatic and Pythagorean categories.
It is by philosophizing on minute things, which in ordinary life would be considered mere trifles, and hardly worth a consideration, that this knowledge is arrived at.
But you know the philosophizing of the paltriest does not harm anyone," said Andrey Yefimitch in a tone as if he wanted to cry and complain.
He was fond of philosophizing when he was in quietness by himself, and then he fancied that he was a very earnest, deep thinker, and that nothing in this world interested him but serious questions.
Why, then, that malignant laugh, my friend, and how can these paltry creatures help philosophizing if they are not satisfied?
The accounts of the later Greeks are tainted by their philosophizing and mysticizing spirit.
This innovation cannot be said to be successful; moreover there is generally too much philosophizing and moralizing in the piece.
They are fond of philosophizing about themselves, and in a comical way.
One tramp was philosophizing in a maundering way over his life on the road, and what first brought him there.
In my philosophizing I at length reached the conclusion that woman must be the moral and spiritual equivalent of man.
Have felt so much energy to-day that thought I must begin upon my old philosophizing essays.
The wonderful family resemblance of all Indian, Greek, and German philosophizing is easily enough explained.
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