Practical Essays by Alexander Bain
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Previous pain not, in all cases, necessary to pleasure.
Simplicity of Style praiseworthy only under prevailing artificiality. To extol Knowledge is to reprobate Ignorance. Authority appealed to, when in our favour, repudiated when against us. Fallacy of declaring all labour honourable alike. The happiness of Justice supposes reciprocity. Love and Benevolence need to be reciprocated. The _moral nature_ of God--a fallacy of suppressed correlative A perpetual miracle--a self-contradiction. Fallacy that, in the world, everything is mysterious. Proper meaning of Mystery. Locke and Newton on the true nature of Explanation The Understanding cannot transcend its own experience.--Time and Space, their Infinity. We can assimilate facts, and generalise the many into one. This alone constitutes Explanation. Example from Gravity: not now mysterious. |
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