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Image 8 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... LIMITS OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT EXAMINED. Lectures, delivered in the Oxford University Pulpit, on the Bampton Foundation. By Kev. H. Lon- gueville Mansel. With Copious Notes translated for the American edition. 12mo, cloth, 1.50. This is incomparably the ablest contribution to the cause of sound learning and treasures of exact thought, which has recently been added to the common stock. In clear and simple terms,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 9 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... OUTLINE OF SIE WILLIAM HAMILTON S PHILOSOPHY.- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 11 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... OUTLINE SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON S PHILOSOPHY. A TEXT-BOOK FOR STUDENTS. BY THE REV. J. CLARK MURRAY, PROFESSOR OF MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY, QUEEN S UNIVERSITY, CANADA. ©BEttfj an Entroljucti0n, BY THE REV. JAMES McCOSH, LL.D, PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY. BOSTON: GOULD .A. N D LINCOLN, 69 WASHINGTON STREET. NEW YORK: SHELDON AND COMPANY. CINCINNATI G. S. BLANCHAliD CO. TOENOTO, ONT. ADAM, STEVENSON…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 12 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by GOULD AND LINCOLN, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Rockwell CrjURcniLL, Printers, Boston.- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 13 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... o tfje fHcmorg O F SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, THIS ESSAY IN THE EXPOSITION OF HIS PHILOSOPHY Is Inscribed BY A GBATEFUL PUPIL. On Earth there is nothing great but Man: In Man there is nothing great but Mind.- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 15 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... PREFACE. °X«c The primary object of this work is to provide a convenient text-book in philosophy. The labors of Sir William Hamilton as a professor formed generally the most powerful influence in the philosophical education of those who came within their reach and a similar influence has extended into wider circles through his writings. It seemed to me, therefore, that his philosophy might still…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 16 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... X PREFACE. which contain the fullest account of his philosophy, and from which, therefore, the largest extracts have been drawn for the present work, besides being devoted mainly to one subdivision of his system, fail to give his matured views, or the matured expression of his views, on some subjects, while the discussion of many points is overladen with a mass of extraneous matter,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 17 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... PREFACE. XI also frequently left out of a passage a feAv words which were not essential to its meaning, especially when they appeared to be intended rather for an audience than for readers. Such slight liberties I have not considered it necessary to indicate. Occasionally, moreover, where Hamilton s editors intimate that he has adopted the language of another writer for the expression of…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 18 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... XII PREFACE. philosophical system. At the same time I do not take the responsibility of recommending that my book should be ac- cepted as a final authority in any important question concerning Hamilton s doctrine, without referring to the works of the philosopher himself. I have, therefore, uniformly subjoined, within parentheses, a distinct reference to the place in his works from which each passage…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 19 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... CONTENTS. PAOB Introductory Note, by Dr. James McCosh xxiii INTRODUCTION. 1. The General Nature of Philosophy 19 (A) Nominal Definition of Philosophy 19 (B) Real Definition of Philosophy 20 I. Historical or Empirical Knowledge .21 II. Philosophical or Scientific Knowledge 22 Philosophy, strictly so called, is the Science of Mind 24 2. Classification of the Philosophical Sciences 25 Tabular View of tho Classification 27…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 20 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... XIV CONTENTS. (A) Terms expressing the Manifestations of Mind .32 (B) Terms expressing the Unknown Basis of Mental Manifesta- tions 34 CHAPTER II. CONSCIOUSNESS IN GENERAL. 1. Consciousness: Its General Nature 37 2. Consciousness: Its Special Conditions 40 (A) Undisputed Conditions I. It is an actual knowledge. II. It is an immediate knowledge. III. It supposes dis- crimination. IV. It involves judgment. V. It…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 21 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... CONTENTS. XV FIRST PART OF PHENOMENAL PSYCHOLOGY. PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE COGNITIONS. INTRODUCTION. CLASSIFICATION OF THE COGNITIVE FACULTIES. What is meant by a mental power 61 Distribution of the Faculties of Knowledge 63 Tabular View of the Distribution 66 CHAPTER I. THE PRESENTATIVE FACULTY. 1. External Perception 67 (A) Distinction between Sensation and Perception 68 Law Sensation and Perception are always in the inverse ratio…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 22 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... XVI CONTENTS. Tabular Classification of these theories 88 §2. Self- Consciousness 90 Self-consciousness contrasted with Perception .90 The fundamental forms of Self-Consciousness are Time and Self, as those of Perception are Time and Space. Two difficulties removed 91 CHAPTER II. THE CONSERVATIVE FACULTY. The relation of the Conservative Faculty to the Presentative on the one hand, and to the Reproductive and Representative on the…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 23 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... CONTENTS. XVII CHAPTER III. THE REPRODUCTIVE FACULTY. Reproduction governed by Laws 110 Distinction between the primary and the secondary Laws of Reproduction 111 1. Primary Laws of Reproduction 112 (A) General. I. Law of Possible Reproduction .112 II. Laws of Actual Reproduction 112 1. Law of Repetition .114 2. Law of Redintegration 114 (B) Special. I. Law of Similars 115 II. Law of Contrast…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 24 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... XVIH CONTENTS. CHAPTER V. THE ELABORATIVB FACULTY. 1. Primary Acts of Comparison 134 1. Affirmation of Existence 134 2. Discrimination of the Ego and the Non-ego 134 3. Judgment of Agreement or Dissimilarity 135 4. Recognition of Substance .135 5. Recognition of Cause 135 2. Classification .136 (A) Collective Notions 136 (B) Abstraction, poetical and scientific .138 (C) Generalization; General Notions; Their Extension and…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 25 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... CONTENTS. XIX CHAPTER VI. THE REGULATIVE FACULTY. This faculty is the source of necessary or a priori cognitions 162 Criteria of such cognitions: 1. Incomprehensibility; 2. Simplicity; 3. Necessity and Universality; 4. Certainty 164 The conditions of positive thought are: 1. Non-contradiction, and 2. Relativity 165 1. Non-contradiction involves the three laws of 1. Identity; 2. Con- tradiction; 3. Excluded Middle 166 2. Relativity…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 26 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... XX CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. ABSTRACT THEORY OF PLEASURE AND PAIN. Definition of Pleasure and Pain 198 Their different kinds 1. Positive and Negative Pleasure and Pain 2. Pain of Restraint and that of Over-exertion 199 CHAPTER II. THE ABSTRACT THEORY APPLIED TO THE CONCRETE PHENOMENA. 1. The Feelings as Causes 200 As Causes the feelings are divided into the pleasurable and the painful 200…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 27 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... CONTENTS. XXI (a) by itself, (b) in conjunction with imagination. The last include i. the Beautiful; ii. the Sublime; iii. the Picturesque 208 II. The practical, the concomitants of our conative powers, comprehending those that relate to (1) self-preserva- tion, (2) enjoyment of existence, (3) preservation of the species, (4) our tendency to perfection, (5) the moral law 219 THIRD PART OF PHENOMENAL PSYCHOLOGY.…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 28 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... XXII CONTENTS. THIRD DIVISION OF PHILOSOPHY. INFERENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY. CHAPTER I. EXISTENCE IN GENERAL. The axiom, that we have no knowledge of existence itself, but merely of its phenomena, explained in reference to I. Matter, and II. Mind 237 This axiom is divided into two I. That the properties of existence are not necessarily of the same number as our faculties of apprehending them 240…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 29 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... INTRODUCTORY NOTE. »o»io« Sir William Hamilton was the greatest metaphysician of his age, and his metaphysics will be studied by thinking minds in all coming ages. But his system was not drawn out in a compendious form by himself. In order to find it, students have to search a number of treatises in the shape of reviews, dissertations, class-lectures, notes, and notes upon notes.…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 30 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... XXIV INTRODUCTORY NOTE. rect, and readily intelligible, of the leading doctrines and connections of Hamilton s Philosophy. The account is ren- dered mainly in Hamilton s own language, by one who un- derstands his philosophy, and who has the higher merit of entering thoroughly into the spirit of his great teacher. I have observed that in points in regard to which there have been…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 31 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... INTRODUCTION. THE GENERAL NATURE AND DIVISIONS OF PHILOSOPHY. 1. THE GENERAL NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY. In commencing a course of philosophical discipline, it is important to obtain, at least, a general notion of what philosophy is. In order to this, there are two questions to be answered (A) What is the mean- ing of the name? and What is the meaning of the thing? (A)…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 32 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 20 AN OUTLINE OF expression. It was natural that he should be anxious to contradistinguish himself from the Sophists (of ao poi\ ol ro pH7Tou) literally, the wise men; and no term could more appropriately ridicule the arrogance of these pretenders, or afford a happier contrast to their haughty designation, than that of philosopher (i. e., the lover of wisdom) and at the same…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 33 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... Sill WILLIAM HAMILTON S PHILOSOPHY. 21 moral agent and sometimes as comprehending both theory and practice. Again, philosophy may either be regarded objectively, that is, as a complement of truth known or subjectively, that is, as a habit or quality of the mind knowing. In these circumstances I shall not attempt a definition of philosophy, but shall endeavor to accomplish the end which every…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 34 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 22 AN OUTLINE OF noil is for history is properly only the narration of a consecutive series of phenomena in time, or the description of a coexistent series of phenomena in space. Civil history is an example of the one natural history, of the other. 2. It is called empirical or experiential, if we might use that term, because it is given us by…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 35 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir william Hamilton s philosophy. 23 connection of effect and cause, either in reality or in thought. It is sufficient for our present purpose to observe that, while, by the constitution of our nature, we are unable to conceive anything to begin to be without referring it to some cause, still the knowl- edge of its particular cause is not involved in the knowledge…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 36 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 24 AN OUTLINE OF ceived different names. The latter, we have seen, is called historical or empirical knowledge the former is called philosophical or scientific or rational knowl- edge. Historical, is the knowledge that a thing is philosophical, the knowledge why or hoio it is. The Greek language well expresses philosophical knowl- edge as the Stove, the yvataiq dcort Man. Such is philosophical knowledge…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 37 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir william Hamilton s philosophy. 25 jected, the grand, the primary problem of philosophy must be to investigate and determine these conditions as the necessary conditions of its own possibility. 2. In the second place, as philosophy is not merely a knowledge, but a knowledge of causes, and as the mind itself is the universal and principal concurrent cause in every act of knowledge…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 38 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 26 AN OUTLINE OF late these facts, or under which these phenomena appear? (3.) What are the real Results, not imme- diately manifested, which these facts or phenomena warrant us in drawing I. If we consider the mind merely with the view of observing and generalizing the various phenomena it reveals, we have one mental science or one depart- ment of mental science and…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 39 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON S PHILOSOPHY. 27 III. The third great branch of philosophy is that which is engaged in the deduction of Inferences or Results. In the first branch philosophy is properly limited to the facts afforded in consciousness, con- sidered exclusively in themselves. But these facts may be such as not only to be objects of knowledge in themselves, but likewise to furnish…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 41 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... FIRST DIVISION OF PHILOSOPHY. PHENOMENAL PSYCHOLOGY.- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 43 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... INTRODUCTION TO PHENOMENAL PYSCHOLOGY. CHAPTER I. DEFINITION OF THE SCIENCE AND EXPLANATION OF TERMS IN THE DEFINITION. Phenomenal Psychology Psychology, strictly so denominated is the science conversant about the phenomena or modifications or states of the Mind or Conscious Subject or Soul or Spirit or Self or Ego. In this definition I have purposely accumulated a variety of expressions, in order that I might…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 44 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 32 AN OUTLINE OF in which the mind becomes known the other des- ignating the mind, considered as the unknown sub- stance to which these phenomena belong. Of the former class are the words phenomenon, mode, modifi- cation, state; and to these may be added the analogous terms quality, property, attribute, accident. Of the latter class are subject, mind, soul, spirit, self, ego. (A)…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 45 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir william Hamilton s philosophy. 33 from one to the other without any substantial altera- tion. As the mode cannot exist without a substance, we can accord to it only a secondary or precarious existence in relation to the substance, to which we ac- cord the privilege of existing by itself, per se existere; but though the substance be not restricted to any par-…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 46 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 34 AN OUTLINE OF class are the gravity of bodies, the periodical move- ment of the planets, etc. VI. Attribute is a word properly convertible with quality, for every quality is an attribute, and every attribute is a quality but in our language, custom has introduced a certain distinction in their application. Attribute is considered as a word of loftier signifi- cance, and is,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 47 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sin william Hamilton s philosophy. 35 under the phenomena of which we become aware, whether in our external or internal experience. But the philosophers of mind have, in a manner, usurped and appropriated this expression to themselves. Ac- cordingly in their hands the phrases, conscious or thinking subject, and subject simply, mean precisely the same thing and custom has prevailed so far that, in…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 48 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 36 AN OUTLINE OF HAMILTON S PHILOSOPHY. they are absolutely convertible. The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence, as the sub- ject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that desire, I that will, I that am conscious. The I, indeed,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 49 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... CHAPTER II. CONSCIOUSNESS IN GENERAL. In taking a comprehensive survey of the mental phenomena, these are all seen to comprise one essen- tial element, or to be possible only under one necessary condition. This element or condition is consciousness, or the knowledge that I, that the Ego exists, in some determinate state. In this knowledge they appear or are realized as phenomena, and with…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 50 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 38 AN OUTLINE OF Consciousness lies at the root of all knowledge. Consciousness is itself the one highest source of all comprehensibility and illustration how, then, can we find aught else by which consciousness may be illustrated or comprehended? To accomplish this, it would be necessary to have a second consciousness, through which we might be conscious of the mode in which the first…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 51 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON* S PHILOSOPHY. 39 would not feel if I did not know that I desired, I would not desire. Now, this knowledge, which I, the subject, have of these modifications of my being, and through which knowledge alone these modifica- tions are possible, is what we call consciousness. The expressions I know that I knoio; I know that I /eel; I know…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 52 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 40 AN OUTLINE OF 2. CONSCIOUSNESS ITS SPECIAL CONDITIONS. In this, the most general characteristic of con- sciousness, all philosophers are agreed. The more arduous task remains of determining its special con- ditions. Of these, likewise, some are almost too palpable to admit of controversy. (A) Before proceeding to those in regard to which there is any doubt or difficulty, it will be proper,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 53 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir william Hamilton s philosophy. 41 III. The third condition of consciousness, which may be held as universally admitted, is, that it sup- poses a contrast, a discrimination; for we can be conscious only inasmuch as we are conscious of some- thing and we are conscious of something only inas- much as Ave are conscious of .what that something is, that is, distinguish it…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 54 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 42 AN OUTLINE OF may be assumed as very generally acknowledged, is, that it involves judgment. 1 A judgment is the men- tal act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another. This fourth condition is in truth only a necessary consequence of the third, for it is im- possible to discriminate without judging, discrimi- nation or contradistinction being, in fact, only…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 55 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sm william Hamilton s philosophy. 43 Collard, and others, has classed consciousness as a co- ordinate faculty with the other intellectual powers distinguished from them, not as the species from the individual, bitt as the individual from the individual. And as the particular faculties have each their peculiar object, so the peculiar object of consciousness is the operations of the other faculties themselves, to…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 56 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 44 AN OUTLINE OF cognition I know, and the cognition know that I know, into the separate energies of distinct faculties, is therefore vain. But this is the analysis of Reid. Consciousness, which the formula I know that I know adequately expresses, he views as a power specifically distinct from the various cognitive faculties compre- hended under the formula know, precisely as these faculties…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 57 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir william Hamilton s philosophy. 45 them all. Every intelligent act is thus a modified consciousness and consciousness a comprehensive term for the complement of our cognitive energies. II. But the vice of Reid s analysis is further mani- fested in his arbitrary limitation of the sphere of con- sciousness proposing to it the various intellectual operations, but excluding their objects. I am con-…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 58 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 46 AN OUTLINE OF object. Yet how can we be conscious of a perception, that is, how can we know that a perception exists, that it is a perception, and not another mental state, and that it is the perception of a rose, and of noth- ing but a rose unless this consciousness involve a knowledge (or consciousness) of the object which at once…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 59 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... SIB WILLIAM HAMILTON* S PHILOSOPHY. 47 place, I shall consider the character of its evidence, and what, under different relations, are the degrees of its authority. (A) As consciousness has been shown to be the condition of all the mental phenomena, it is mainly, if not solely, to consciousness, that we must resort for an acquaintance with these phenomena. Accord- ing to the doctrine…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 60 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 48 AN OUTLINE OF (B) We proceed to consider, in the next place, the authority, the certainty, of this instrument. Now, it is at once evident, that philosophy, as it affirms its own possibility, must affirm the veracity of consciousness for, as philosophy is only a scientific development of the facts which consciousness reveals it follows, that philosophy, in denying or doubting the testimony…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 61 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir william Hamilton s philosophy. 49 hended facts or actual manifestations, and those deliverances considered as testimonies to the truth of facts beyond their own phenomenal reality. I. Viewed under the former limitation, they are above all scepticism. For as doubt is itself only a manifestation of consciousness, it is impossible to doubt that, when consciousness manifests, it does manifest, without, in thus doubting,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 62 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 50 AN OUTLINE OF tion, at least, being felo-de-se, that, though given as a non-ego, this object may, in reality, he only a repre- sentation of a non-ego, in and by the ego. Let this, therefore, be maintained let the fact of the testimony be admitted, but the truth of the testimony, to aught beyond its own ideal existence, be doubted or denied. How…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 63 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir william Hamilton s philosophy. 51 the past, is not a mere phantasm, containing an illu- sive reference to an unreal past? We can do this only in one way. The legitimacy of such gratuitous doubt necessarily supposes that the deliverance of consciousness is not to be presumed true. If, there- fore, it can be shown, on the one hand, that the de- liverances…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 64 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 52 AN OUTLINE OF from any higher knowledge and as original beliefs, they are paramount in certainty to every derivative assurance. But they are many they are, in author- ity, co-ordinate and their testimony is clear and precise. It is therefore competent for us to view them in correlation; to compare their declarations, and to consider whether they contradict,- and, by contradict- ing, invalidate…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 65 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir jvilliam Hamilton s philosophy. 53 then must we remove the reproach from the instru- ment, and affix it to those blundering workmen who have not known how to handle and apply it. Now, in attempting a scientific deduction of the philosophy of mind from the facts of consciousness, there are, in all, if I generalize correctly, three laws which afford the exclusive conditions…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 66 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 54 AN OUTLINE OF plement of colors and figures I recognize what the ob- ject is. This is the phenomenon of Cognition or Knowl- edge. But this is not the only phenomenon of which I may be here conscious. I may experience certain affections in the contemplation of this object. If the picture be a masterpiece, the gratification will be un- alloyed but if…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 67 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir wizliam Hamilton s philosophy. 55 self from self this objectification is the quality which constitutes the essential peculiarity of cog- nition. II. In the phenomena of feeling, on the contrary, consciousness does not place the mental modification or state beyond itself; it does not contemplate it apart, as separate from itself, but is, as it were, fused into one. The peculiarity of feeling,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 68 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 56 AN OUTLINE OF To the above classification of the mental phenom- ena objections have been taken. I. It has been objected, that the three classes are co-ordinate. It is evident that every mental phenom- enon is either an act of knowledge, or only possible through an act of knowledge, for consciousness is a knowledge, and, on this principle, many philoso- phers, as Descartes,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 69 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir jvilliam Hamilton s philosophy. 57 cise, and of grieving at the restraint of his activity, and yet devoid of voluntary agency of that conation which is possessed by man. To such a being would belong feelings of pain and pleasure, but neither desire nor will, properly so called. On the other hand, however, we cannot possibly conceive the existence of a voluntary activity…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 70 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 58 AN OUTLINE OF HAMILTON S PHILOSOPHY. absurd, and even impossible. The power of cogni- tion and the power of conation, he holds, are in pro- priety to be regarded as two different fundamental powers, only because the operation of our mind ex- hibits a twofold direction of its whole activity, one inwards, another outwards in consequence of which we are constrained to distinguish,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 71 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... FIRST PART OF PHENOMENAL PSYCHOLOGY. PHENOMENOLOGY OF TEE COGNITIONS.- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 73 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... FIRST PART OF PHENOMENAL PSYCHOLOGY. PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE COGNITIONS. INTRODUCTION. CLASSIFICATION OF THE COGNITIVE FACULTIES. I now proceed to the particular investigation of the first class of the mental phenomena, and shall com- mence by delineating to you the distribution of the cognitive faculties which I shall adopt, a distribution different from any other with which I am acquainted. But I would first premise…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 74 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 62 AN OUTLINE OF similar every action and passion is not different from every other. On the contrary, they are like, and they are unlike. Those, therefore, that are like, we group or assort together in thought, and bestow on them a common name nor are these groups or assortments manifold, they are, in fact, few and simple. Again, every action is an effect…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 75 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sm William Hamilton s philosophy. 63 rately they are always in conjunction, and it is only by an ideal analysis and abstraction that, for the pur- poses of science, they can be discriminated and con- sidered apart. The problem, proposed in such an analysis, is to find the primary threads which, in their composition, form the complex tissue of thought. In what ought to…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 76 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 64 AN OUTLINE OF which may be called the Acquisitive, or the Presenta- tive, or the Receptive. Now, new or adventitious knowledge may be either of things external or of things internal. If the ob- ject of knowledge be external, the faculty receptive or presentative of the qualities of such object will be a consciousness of the non-ego. This has obtained the name of…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 77 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sip william Hamilton s philosophy. 65 veution of the will, this faculty maybe called Sugges- tion, or Spontaneous Suggestion; whereas, if applied under the influence of the will, it will properly obtain the name of Reminiscence, or Recollection. By repro- duction, it should be observed, that I strictly mean the process of recovering the absent thought from un- consciousness, and not its representation in…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 78 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 66 AN OUTLINE OF HAMILTON 8 PHILOSOPHY. there are cognitions in the mind which are not con- tingent, which are necessary, which we cannot but think, which thought supposes as its fundamen- tal condition. These cognitions, therefore, are not mere generalizations from experience. But if not de- rived from experience, they must be native to the mind. These native cognitions are the laws by…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 79 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE COGNITIONS. CHAPTER I. THE PRESENTATIVE FACULTY. This faculty is subdivided into External Perception and Internal Perception, or Self-cousciousuess. I commence with the former of these. 1. EXTERNAL PERCEPTION. External or Sensitive Perception, or Perception sim- ply, 1 is that act of consciousness whereby we appre- hend in our body, (1.) certain special affections, whereof, as an animated organism, it is contingently…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 80 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 68 AN OUTLINE OF prepared for understanding the true theory of percep- tion. (A) Sensation and Perception. Before pro- ceeding to state the great law which regulates the mutual relation of these phenomena, it is proper to say a few words illustrative of the nature of the phe- nomena themselves. Perception is a special kind of knowledge sensation a special kind of feeling and…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 81 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... SIR 1PTLLIAM HAMILTON 3 S PHILOSOPHY. 69 for no energy is absolutely indifferent, and the gross- est feeling exists only as it is known in consciousness. This being the case of cognition and feeling in general, the same is true of perception and sensation in par- ticular. Perception proper is the consciousness, through the senses, of the qualities of an object known as different…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 82 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 70 AN OUTLINE OF cisely as a sense has more of the one element, it has less of the other. Laying Touch aside for the moment, as this requires a special explanation, the other four senses divide themselves into two classes, according as Perception or Sensation predominates. The two in which the former element prevails, are Sight and Hearing the two in which the…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 83 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir William Hamilton s philosophy. 71 that is, of pleasure or pain, is great in proportion as the perception, that is, the information they afford, is small. 3. In regard to Touch, without entering on dis- puted questions, it is sufficient to know, that in those parts of the body where sensation predominates, per- ception is feeble and in those where perception is lively,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 84 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 72 AN OUTLINE OF pleasure of the Sensation, in the intensity of which Perception has been lost. 2. Take now the difference, in kind, of impres- sions in the same sense. Of the senses, take again that of Sight. Sight, as will hereafter be shown, is cognizant of color, and of figure. But though figure is known only through color, a very imperfect cognizance…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 85 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON S PHILOSOPHY. 73 exclusive but a more enduring gratification. How soon are we cloyed with the pleasures of the palate, com- pared with those of the eye and, among the objects of the former, the meats that please the most are soonest objects of disgust. This is too notorious in regard to taste to stand in need of proof. But it…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 86 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 74 AN OUTLINE OF the Psychological. But, under this, the ground of principle on which these qualities are divided and des- ignated is, again, twofold. There are, in fact, within the psychological, two special points of view; (1.) that of Sense, and (2.) that of Understanding. 1. The point of view chronologically prior, or first to us, is that of Sense. The principle of…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 87 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sir jvilliam Hamilton s philosophy. 75 objectively in themselves the Secundo-primary Qual- ities, again, are -recognized as a posteriori or contin- gent modifications of the Primary, and we clearly con- ceive how they do exist in bodies in knowing what they are objectively in their conditions finally, the Secondary Qualities are recognized as a posteriori or contingent accidents of matter, but we obscurely sur-…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 88 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 76 AN OUTLINE OF ventitious, or a posteriori. Of this latter class is that of Body or Matter. Now, we ask, what are the necessary or essential, in contrast to the contingent or accidental, properties of Body, as apprehended and conceived by us? The answer to this question affords the class of Primary, as contradistinguished from the two classes of Secun- do-primary and Secondary…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 89 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... SIR )V1LLIAM HAMILTON S PHILOSOPHY. 77 bended as actually one considered as an extended whole, it is, and is conceived, potentially many. Body being thus necessarily known, if not as already divided, still as always capable of division, Divisibil- ity or Number is thus likewise, in a second respect, a primary attribute of matter. ii. Body (invito majus, this or that body) is not…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 90 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 78 AN OUTLINE OF quently the possible rest, of a body and (5) the Situation, Position, Ubication, that is, the local cor- relation of bodies in space. For (a) Space being conceived as infinite (or rather being inconceivable as not infinite) and the place oc- cupied by body as finite, body in general, and of course each body in particular, is conceived capable either…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 91 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sib william Hamilton s philosophy. 79 which are necessary, while they themselves are only accidental, they exhibit, on the one side, what may be called a quasi-primary quality and, in this re- spect they are to be recognized as percepts, not sen- sations, as objective affections of things, and not as subjective affections of us. But, on the other side, this objective element is…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 92 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 80 AN OUTLINE OF be distinguished, on the same objective principle, two subaltern genera: (i.) that of Gravity, or the co-at- traction of the particles of body in general; and (ii.) that of Cohesion, or the co-attraction of the particles of this and that body in particular. i. The resistance of Gravity or Weight, according to its degree (which, again, is in proportion to…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 93 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... SIP WILLIAM HAMILTON S PHILOSOPHY. 81 tributes which we may refer to the secundo-primary qualities of body all obtained by the division and subdivision of the resisting forces of matter, consid- ered in an objective or physical point of view. 2. Considered psychologically, or in a subjective relation, they are to be discriminated, under the genus of the Relatively resisting, (a) according to the…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 94 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 82 AN OUTLINE OF inorganic, of the sentient and insentient, of mind and matter and though, as mutually correlative, and their several pairs rarely obtaining in common language more than a single name, they cannot well be con- sidered, except in conjunction, under the same cate- gory or general class still their essential contrast of character must be ever carefully borne in mind. And…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 96 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 84 AN OUTLINE OF sensation and perception, and of the distinction in the qualities of matter, it will be seen (1.) that in percep- tion proper the object perceived is always either (a) a primary quality, or (6) the quasi-primary phasis of a secundo-primary, (2.) that the primary qualities are perceived as in our organism, the quasi-primary phasis of the secundo-primary as in correlation…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 97 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sin tvilliam Hamilton s philosophy. 85 it follows that, to perception, the same veal extension will appear in this place of the body some million or myriad times greater than in that. Nor does this difference subsist only as between sense and sense for in the same sense, and even in that sense which has very commonly been held exclusively to afford a knowledge…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 98 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... 86 AN OUTLINE OF problem to attempt imagining the steps by which we may be supposed to have acquired the notion of exten- sion, when in fact we are unable to imagine to our- selves the possibility of that notion not being always in our possession. We have, therefore, a twofold cog- nition of space (1.) an a priori or native imagination of it,…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Image 99 of Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ... sip william Hamilton s philosophy. 87 be intuitive. Nor is the fact, as given, denied even by those who disallow its truth. So clear is the de- liverance, that even the philosophers who reject an intuitive perception find it impossible not to admit that their doctrine stands decidedly opposed to the voice of consciousness and the natural conviction of mankind. 1 The contents of…- Contributor: Hamilton, William - Murray, John Clark
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Title
- Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy ...
Names
- Murray, John Clark, 1836-1917.
- Hamilton, William, Sir, 1788-1856.
Created / Published
- Boston, Gould and Lincoln; New York, Sheldon and company; [etc., etc.] 1870.
Headings
- - Philosophy
- - Psychology
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 3 p.l., ix-xxiv, 19-257 p. 21 cm.
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- 10032066
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