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...s, and overthrow ing him out of his own mouth, or whether he is propounding consequences which would have been admitted by Zeno and Parmenides them ... ...ink that in visible objects you may easily show any num ber of inconsistent consequences.’ ‘Y es; and you should consider , not only the consequences... ...keness, motion, rest, genera tion, corruption, being and not being. And the consequences must include consequences to the things supposed and to othe... ...on on the negative as well as the positive hypothesis, with reference to the consequences which flow from the denial as well as from the assertion of ... ... is the object of these para doxes, some have answered that they are a mere logical puzzle, while others have seen in them an Hegelian propaedeutic o... ...en in two senses: Either one is one, Or , one has being, from which opposite consequences are deduced, 1.a. If one is one, it is nothing. 1.b. If one ... ...rocess is real, or in any way an assistance to thought, or , like some other logical forms, a mere figure of speech transferred from the sphere of mat...

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... as we learn from the Memorabilia of Xenophon, first drew attention to the consequences of actions. Man- kind were said by him to act rightly when the... ...acknowledge that a large class of actions are made right or wrong by their consequences only; we say further that mankind are not too mindful, but tha... ... that mankind are not too mindful, but that they are far too regardless of consequences, and that they need to have the doctrine of utility habitually... ..., and the necessary foundation of that part of morals which relates to the consequences of actions, we still have to consider whether this or some oth... ...out entering on this wide field, even a superficial consider- ation of the logical and metaphysical works which pass under the name of Aristotle, whet... ...r of the other two, and in addition to them. SOCRATES: But do you see the consequence? 72 Philebus PROTARCHUS: To be sure I do. The consequence is,...

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... regions of transcendental speculation back into the path of common sense. A logical or psy- chological phase takes the place of the doctrine of Ideas... ... ideal, in the de- lineation of which he is frequently interrupted by purely logical illustrations. The younger Socrates resembles his namesake in not... ...y the presence of Theodorus, the geometrician. There is political as well as logical insight in refusing to admit the division of mankind into Hellene... ...nd like rules might be extended to any art or science. But what would be the consequence? ‘The arts would utterly perish, and human life, which is bad... ... can tell?’ As in the Theaetetus, evil is supposed to continue,—here, as the consequence of a former state of the world, a sort of mephitic vapour exh... ...en it a single name. Whereas you would make a much better and more equal and logical classification of numbers, if you divided them into odd and even;... ...NG SOCRATES: Indeed I should. STRANGER: And there is a still more ridiculous consequence, that the king is found running about with the herd and in cl... ...hown in the previous argument. STRANGER: Thank you for reminding me; and the consequence is that any true form of government can only be supposed to b...

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...utility of the theory implied in these and similar phrases, was an obvious consequence from the speculations of writ- ers even anterior to Mr. Ricardo... ...nterior to that of cost of production, and from which this last flows as a consequence,—namely, the prin- ciple of demand and supply. In order to appl... ...e same as before. Or it may not diminish it at all, or so little, that, in consequence of the higher price, a greater money value will be purchased th... ...consumers of linen, who pay a higher price for that imported commodity, in consequence of the tax on our exports, which at the same time they, in cons... ...ual to what its price without the duty was at first, it is not a necessary consequence that the fall will stop; for the same amount of exportation as ... ...hat the definition of a science would occupy the same place in the chrono- logical which it commonly does in the didactic order. As a treatise on any ... ... definition of the science itself as should not be liable to well-grounded logical objections. From this remark, we cannot except the authors of eleme... ...itical Economy has remained des- titute of a definition framed on strictly logical principles, or even of, what is more easily to be had, a definition... ... one cause, a knowledge of the law of that cause would, unless there was a logical error in our reasoning, en- able us confidently to predict all the ...

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...Fettercairn, one of the Bar ons of the Exchequer in Scotland, and was, in consequence, sent to the University of Edinburgh, at the expense of a fund ... ... expression on the other), and had re duced it to rules, grounded on the logical analysis of a sen tence. These rules he strongly impressed upon me... ...e as anyone that Christians do not, in general, undergo the de moralizing consequences which seem inherent in such a creed, in the manner or to the e... ...eory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logical conse quences of the theory. Such is the facility with which man ... ...other, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recom mended to them by their feelings, that multit... ... fact. This point in my early education had, however, incidentally one bad consequence deserving notice. In giving me an opinion contrary to that of t... ...er, my father put into my hands Condillac’s Traité des Sensations, and the logical and meta physical volumes of his Cours d’Etudes; the first (notwi... ...ervice to me, by compelling precision in conceiving and expressing psycho logical doctrines, whether accepted as truths or only regarded as the opini... ...a desire to promote the exercise of other mental faculties than the purely logical, he advised me to make my next exercise in composition one of the o...