 | Beatrice Edgell - 1924 - 186 pages
...which set out, not from an analysis of knowledge, but from the conception of mind and its faculties. ' It must be by an anatomy of the mind, that we can discover its powers and principles.' (An Inquiry into the Human Mind, ch. i, § 1.) 1 Could we obtain a distinct and full history of all... | |
 | M.T. Dalgarno, E.H. Matthews - 1989 - 508 pages
...life". (7) Reid thus sought to investigate the anatomy of the mind to demonstrate common sense, just as "all that we know of the body, is owing to anatomical dissection and observation". (8) His goal was to consider human thought, opinion, and perception and to trace to them the general... | |
 | Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyre - 1994 - 818 pages
...experience and observation." Reid, in his Inquiry into the Human Mind, was if possible even more explicit. "All that we know of the body, is owing to anatomical...mind that we can discover its powers and principles." And from these pioneers the whole English and Scottish tradition of a "philosophy of the human mind"... | |
 | Thomas Reid, Derek R. Brookes - 2000 - 380 pages
...received; but as neither of these titles can give it authenticity, they ought not to screen it from a free and candid examination; especially in this age, when...of the body, is owing to anatomical dissection and 30 observation, and it must be by an anatomy of the mind that we can discover its powers and principles.... | |
 | William Dean Brewer - 2001 - 260 pages
...the philosopher Thomas Reid argues that the mind, like the body, may be analyzed through dissection: "All that we know of the body, is owing to anatomical...anatomy of the mind that we can discover its powers and principles."1 During the Romantic period, a number of authors embraced this eighteenth-century project... | |
 | Gordon Graham - 2004 - 264 pages
...they ought not to screen it from a free and candid examination; especially in this age, when it has produced a system of scepticism, that seems to triumph...mind that we can discover its powers and principles. II: The Impediments to our Knowledge of the Mind But it must be acknowledged, that this kind of anatomy... | |
 | Terence Cuneo, René van Woudenberg - 2004 - 396 pages
...the mind, mistakes the aim" (IHM Ii: 12). 39 Further echoing Turnbull's phraseology Reid adds that "it must be by an anatomy of the mind that we can discover its powers and principles" (ibid.). Newton is undoubtedly a crucial part of Reid's intellectual context; of the major philosophers... | |
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... [All that we know of the body, is owing to anatomical dissection and observation, and it must be by an anatomy of the mind that we can discover its powers and principles.] II. 
