Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method Objects And Result of Ancient And Modern Phil
Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method Objects And Result of Ancient And Modern Phil
Isaac Preston Cory
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Like all continued stresses it is a coexisting 70 OBJECT OF PHILOSOPHY. cause in time, though it may be preceding in order. It is a formal cause, and all formal causes are excluded from this sys- tem of mere antecedence in time. In truth the definitions are too limited ; and we have no right to restrict the meaning of a common word to any philosophical hypothesis which we may entertain : but we must accommodate our definitions to the common usage of mankind, unless we can refute the notions, up...on which that usage proceeds. Thus far we have examined in its out- line only the subject of causation. But, in the examples we have produced, there is another subject of examination, in that Bond of connexion, which has been so great a stumbling-block among the moderns. When we come more narrowly to inspect this triplicated chain of Causes, between many of the links there is a joint, if I may so call it : for instance, the aggregate motion of the hammer is, in the bell, converted into atomic mo- CAUSATION.
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