Outlines of moral philosophy / by Dugald Stewart.

  • Dugald Stewart
Date:
1845
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Credit: Outlines of moral philosophy / by Dugald Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    affairs exhibit so busy and various a scene: tending, in one instance, to improvement, and, in another, to decline; according as our no- tions of excellence and of happiness are just or erroneous. SECTION IX. OF JUDGMENT AND REASONING. 69. Judgment is defined by the writers on logic, to be an act of the mind, by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another ;—a de- finition, which, although not unexceptionable, is as good as the nature of the subject admits of. 70. In some eases, our judgments are formed as soon as the terms of the proposition are un- derstood ; or they result so necessarily from the original constitution of the mind, that we act upon them from our earliest infancy, without ever making them an object of reflection. In other cases, they are formed in consequence of a process of thought, consisting of different sue- cessive steps. Hence, a distinction of Evidence into etuitive and deductive.
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