Uncover how the mind gathers and orders its thoughts to grasp truth. This volume presents a rigorous examination of judgment, reasoning, and the conditions that make rational insight possible. Through historical and contemporary voices, it explores how attention shapes understanding, and why sustained focus can turn learning into creative power.
Written in clear, accessible prose, the lectures move from how language links ideas to how the mind combines multiple objects into a coherent whole. Readings on syllogisms, the limits of simultaneous perception, and the value of deliberate concentration illuminate the habits that help thinkers—from students to scholars—maintain steady, meaningful inquiry.
Ideal for readers of philosophy, logic, and the history of ideas who want a deeper look at how the mind processes and sustains inquiry.
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The following Lectures on Metaphysics constitute the first portion of the Biennial Course which the lamented Author was in the habit of delivering during the period of his occupation of the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh.
In giving these Lectures to the world, it is due, both to the Author and to his readers, to acknowledge that they do not appear in that state of completeness which might have been expected, had they been prepared for publication by the Author himself. As Lectures on Metaphysics, - whether that term be taken in its wider or its stricter sense,-they are confessedly imperfect. The Author himself, adopting the Kantian division of the mental faculties into those of Knowledge, Feeling, and Conation, considers the Philosophy of Mind as com prehending, in relation to each of these, the three great subdivisions of Psychology, or the Science of the Phaeno mena of Mind; Nomology, or the Science of its Laws; and Ontology, or the Science of Results and Inferences.
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Excerpt from Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, Vol. 1 of 4
The following Lectures on Metaphysics constitute the first portion of the Biennial Course which the lamented Author was in the habit of delivering during the period of his occupation of the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh.
About the Publisher
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book offers a comprehensive view of human knowledge as the product of the mind's activity, focusing on the subjective aspect of human perception and the objective knowledge acquired through cognition. The author draws on Kant to explore the relationship between our sensory experience and the rational concepts that help us to interpret and understand it, applying this perspective to explore the deeper questions of being, freedom, and God. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781332809813_0
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