| Robert Blakey - 1830 - 420 pages
...existed. " The very moment," gays he, " that a sensation is excited by means of such an impression, we learn two facts at once — the existence of the...sensation, and our own existence as sentient beings ; the existence not only of what is felt, but of that which feels." Our notion of personal existence... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 610 pages
...were ever to be made on our external senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once...existence as sentient beings : in other words, the verv first exercise' of my consciousness .necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 622 pages
...consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once ;—the ex. istence of the sensation, and our own existence as sentient...beings : in other words, the very first exercise of my con13 sciousness necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence of what is felt,... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1839 - 476 pages
...were ever to be made on our external senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once...beings : in other words, the very first exercise of my consciousness necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence of what is felt, but... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 474 pages
...were ever to be made on our external senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once;...beings : in other words, the very first exercise of my consciousness necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence of what is felt, but... | |
| Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1842 - 662 pages
...sensations by which it is suggested. Outlines of moral philosophy p. 19. The very first exercise of my consciousness necessarily implies a belief not only...present existence of that which feels and thinks. — Of these facts however it is the former alone of which we can properly be said to be conscious... | |
| Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1842 - 720 pages
...which it is suggested. Outlines of moral philosophy p. 19. The very first exercise of my consciousuess necessarily implies a belief not only of the present...present existence of that which feels and thinks. — Of these facts however it is the former alone of which we can properly be said to be conscious... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
...impressions were ever made on our external senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once...consciousness necessarily implies a belief, not only of tile present existence of what is felt, but of the present existence of that which feels and thinks... | |
| Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1856 - 464 pages
...right before he concludes the paragraph. " The moment ... a sensation is excited, we learn two Jacls at once: — the existence of the sensation, and our own existence as sentient beings." Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind. Bowen's Abridgement, p. 392. VOL. xin. 24 delivers, is... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1857 - 474 pages
...were ever to be made on our exterrfal senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once...beings : in other words, the very first exercise of my consciousness necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence of what is felt, but... | |
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