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... exertion can sometimes be made without restraint , and at others is checked or resisted by a foreign obstacle , the infant mind comes at last to a conception of outward things , or of existences foreign to itself . Whether this ...
... exertion can sometimes be made without restraint , and at others is checked or resisted by a foreign obstacle , the infant mind comes at last to a conception of outward things , or of existences foreign to itself . Whether this ...
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... exerting a volition , or as entirely passive . Stating the same argument in other terms , I say that reasoning from attributes or qualities to the substance which sup- ports them is a proper inference , that being inferred which is not ...
... exerting a volition , or as entirely passive . Stating the same argument in other terms , I say that reasoning from attributes or qualities to the substance which sup- ports them is a proper inference , that being inferred which is not ...
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... exertion of will , a purely mental effort , which will be best illustrated , perhaps , by an action confined entirely to mind . - Consider , then , the strong effort of the will to fix the attention upon a particular subject of thought ...
... exertion of will , a purely mental effort , which will be best illustrated , perhaps , by an action confined entirely to mind . - Consider , then , the strong effort of the will to fix the attention upon a particular subject of thought ...
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... exertion , the result to be accomplished is preconsidered , or meditated , and is therefore known a priori , or before experi- ence ; the volition succeeds , which is a true effort , or a power in action ; and this , if the power be ...
... exertion , the result to be accomplished is preconsidered , or meditated , and is therefore known a priori , or before experi- ence ; the volition succeeds , which is a true effort , or a power in action ; and this , if the power be ...
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... exerting this force of one ton upon the object in a direction con- trary to that of gravity , it be put into a scale and weighed , it will be found to have lost a ton of its weight , or , in other words , to press downwards with a force ...
... exerting this force of one ton upon the object in a direction con- trary to that of gravity , it be put into a scale and weighed , it will be found to have lost a ton of its weight , or , in other words , to press downwards with a force ...
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