Practical Essays by Alexander Bain
Chapter 1 ERRORS OF SUPPRESSED CORRELATIVES.
Meanings of Relativity-intellectual and emotional.
All impressions greatest at first. Law of Accommodation and habit.
The pleasure of rest presupposes toil.
Knowledge has its charm from previous ignorance.
Silence is of value, after excess of speech.
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.
Body and Mind. In what ways the mysteriousness of their union might be done away with.
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Chapter 1 ERRORS OF SUPPRESSED CORRELATIVES.
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Chapter 2 THE SCIENCE CONSIDERED.
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Chapter 3 No.3
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Chapter 4 METAPHYSICS AND DEBATING SOCIETIES.
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Chapter 5 THE UNIVERSITY IDEAL-PAST AND PRESENT.
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Chapter 6 First Maxim- Select a Text-book-in-chief .
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Chapter 7 What constitutes the study of a book
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Chapter 8 Distributing the Attention in Reading.
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Chapter 9 Desultory Reading.
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Chapter 10 Proportion of book-reading to Observation at first hand.
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Chapter 11 Adjuncts of Reading.-Conversation.
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Chapter 12 RELIGIOUS TESTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS.
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