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... known ; we never can be sure that our analysis of them is complete , or that our observation has taken in all their outward qualities . The attractive power of the loadstone was known for ages before its attribute of polarity was ...
... known ; we never can be sure that our analysis of them is complete , or that our observation has taken in all their outward qualities . The attractive power of the loadstone was known for ages before its attribute of polarity was ...
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... known to produce any thing directly except ner- vous action , for the will influences even the muscles only through the nerves . Though it were granted , then , that every phenomenon has an efficient , and not merely a phenomenal cause ...
... known to produce any thing directly except ner- vous action , for the will influences even the muscles only through the nerves . Though it were granted , then , that every phenomenon has an efficient , and not merely a phenomenal cause ...
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... known to proceed from the Will as their efficient cause ; and the Will is the only known instance of effi- cient causation in the universe . The law of " induction by simple enumera- tion , " then , is strictly applicable in this case ...
... known to proceed from the Will as their efficient cause ; and the Will is the only known instance of effi- cient causation in the universe . The law of " induction by simple enumera- tion , " then , is strictly applicable in this case ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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