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  • Mill himself never wrote a systematic treatise on psychology, but late in his life he reprinted his father's Analysis of the Phaenomena of the Human Mind

    John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

  • Notes to James Mill, A.alysis of the Phaenomena of the Human Mind, 2nd edition, J.S. Mill (ed.); (1st edition, 1829; 2nd edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1869; reprinted New York: A. Keley, 1967)

    John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

  • On the latter's view, as he explained both in the Logic and his introductory notes to the second edition of his father's Analysis of the Phaenomena of the Human Mind, there is a sort of mental chemistry in which the parts fuse, as it were, into a new sort of mental whole.

    John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

  • While working on this, he produced what are in essence critical editions of two works: the Phaenomena, an astrononomical work of the

    Hugo Grotius Miller, Jon 2005

  • Thus in the Mathematical Principles of Philosophy I first shewed from Phaenomena that all bodies endeavoured by

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

  • But if without deriving the properties of things from Phaenomena you feign Hypotheses & think by them to explain all nature you may make a plausible systeme of Philosophy for getting your self a name, but your systeme will be little better than a Romance.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

  • So Aratus, a third-century didactic poet, in his Phaenomena (lines 96-136), removes most of the inconsistencies of Hesiod by reducing the number of ages to three and telling a story of increasing wicked - ness.

    PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • Phaenomena as follow from them: wch is the method of

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

  • Analysis: And the Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discover'd, and establish'd as Principles, and by them ex - plaining the Phaenomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

  • Having discovered “from Phaenomena” the inverse square law of universal gravitational force, and then using this force as a Principle of Philosophy, he writes

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

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