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... metaphysical science by the inductive method.- The extraordinary success of physical inquiry after Bacon's time tended naturally to the depression , and somewhat to the injury or corruption , of abstract science . The undue extension of ...
... metaphysical science by the inductive method.- The extraordinary success of physical inquiry after Bacon's time tended naturally to the depression , and somewhat to the injury or corruption , of abstract science . The undue extension of ...
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... metaphysical in- vestigations . Illustrations of this error might easily be multi- plied from the whole domain of science and speculation , not less numerous and apt in our own day , perhaps , than they were among the ancients or in the ...
... metaphysical in- vestigations . Illustrations of this error might easily be multi- plied from the whole domain of science and speculation , not less numerous and apt in our own day , perhaps , than they were among the ancients or in the ...
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... Metaphysical reasoning not needed to prove the being of a God . With these quotations from Dr. Reid , I conclude the ... metaphysical abstractions , ever failed to receive it with perfect trust at the first view . How far metaphysical ...
... Metaphysical reasoning not needed to prove the being of a God . With these quotations from Dr. Reid , I conclude the ... metaphysical abstractions , ever failed to receive it with perfect trust at the first view . How far metaphysical ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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