Lectures on Metaphysics (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Hamilton, William

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ISBN 10: 0331903407 ISBN 13: 9780331903409

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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 Donation, considers the Philosophy of Mind as compre hending, in relation to each of these, the three great subdivisions of Psychology, or the Science of the Phaenomena of Mind; Nomology. Or the Science of its Laws; and Ontology, or the Science of Results and Inferences.1 The term Illetap/zysics, in its strictest sense, is synonymous with the last of these subdivisions; while, in its widest.

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