Philosophical essays / by Dugald Stewart.

Dugald Stewart

Date:: 1811

Credit: Philosophical essays / by Dugald Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$- phetomenit illite’. to our senses, | chaeiGhe laceer ‘¢on phenome ena of which we are consciotiss» isteatl $ therefore, of objecting to the scheme of materialism, ‘that its conc nelusions are false, it would be inalen uaye “to say, that its'aim ‘is\unphilosophical.. It proceeds on Sa misapprehension of the extent and the limits of genu-” “ine science; the difficulty, which j it professes to remove, “ being manifestly placed beyond: the reach of our facul- “ ties. ‘Surely, when we attempt to. explain the ature of “saying, that it is a material substance; or that i pis the | _ “result of material organization, we impose on ourselves by words; forgetting that matter,,as well erain d ‘“‘kuown to us by its qualities alone, and that we a ‘equally ignorant of the essence of either.”? 9). eS _ In the farther prosecution of the same. argument, I have attempted to. show, that the legitimate, province of experiment; and I have, accordingly, in. my. own inqui- ries, er at Sail more, tho to ascertain, int. ney ‘S stat ding. dtu is.on this plan I have treated ‘ation gf ic 5 of f memory, of imagination, and ~ lasing ee as T$

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