Strictures on Certain Parts of an Anonymous Pamphlet

Strictures on Certain Parts of an Anonymous Pamphlet PDF

Author: Joseph John Gurney

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781458975706

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: STRICTURES. Having, with much sorrow, perused an anonymous pamphlet lately published, under the title of The Truth Vindicated, and knowing that it has obtained a very considerable circulation, I think it right to extract several passages from the work, and to make a few remarks upon them, by way of Christian warning. I have the less difficulty in doing so, because I do not know even the name of the author. I cannot, therefore, be supposed to bear any ill will towards him personally, though I must confess it affords me some satisfaction to be informed that he is not a member of our Society. Anonymous as he is, I wish him well, and heartily desire that he may be brought to true contrition of soul, and to that lively faith in the atoning blood of Christ, by which he may obtain reconciliation with the Father, and may be made a true partaker of the influences of the Holy Ghost. The first point which naturally attracts the attention of the reader of The Truth Vindicated, is the anti- christian spirit and temper in which many passages of it are written, and the unseemly and violent language which the author employs in reference to the ministers and members of various Christian communitie I forbear from making extracts in support of this r mark, being well assured that no sober and religioi person who has cast his eye over the book, can ff to have observed a variety of expressions, under this head, which must have greatly shocked both his feelings as a man, and his principles as a Christian. It would be well if all persons, who bear the name of Christian, would impartially try both their opinions, and their religious experience, by the fruit which they are producing. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and tem...

Structures and Algorithms

Structures and Algorithms PDF

Author: Jens Erik Fenstad

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-03-10

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 3319729748

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This book explains exactly what human knowledge is. The key concepts in this book are structures and algorithms, i.e., what the readers “see” and how they make use of what they see. Thus in comparison with some other books on the philosophy (or methodology) of science, which employ a syntactic approach, the author’s approach is model theoretic or structural. Properly understood, it extends the current art and science of mathematical modeling to all fields of knowledge. The link between structure and algorithms is mathematics. But viewing “mathematics” as such a link is not exactly what readers most likely learned in school; thus, the task of this book is to explain what “mathematics” should actually mean. Chapter 1, an introductory essay, presents a general analysis of structures, algorithms and how they are to be linked. Several examples from the natural and social sciences, and from the history of knowledge, are provided in Chapters 2–6. In turn, Chapters 7 and 8 extend the analysis to include language and the mind. Structures are what the readers see. And, as abstract cultural objects, they can almost always be seen in many different ways. But certain structures, such as natural numbers and the basic theory of grammar, seem to have an absolute character. Any theory of knowledge grounded in human culture must explain how this is possible. The author’s analysis of this cultural invariance, combining insights from evolutionary theory and neuroscience, is presented in the book’s closing chapter. The book will be of interest to researchers, students and those outside academia who seek a deeper understanding of knowledge in our present-day society.

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