The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.
Fulton J. SheenI study philosophy after my dinner, but the dinner is not the cause o my studying philosophy.
Fulton J. SheenAbstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.
Fulton J. SheenThe physical theory suffers from the same affect as humanism; it attempts to live on its own fat and breathe the very air which it has already exhaled from its scientific lungs.
Fulton J. SheenThe soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table.
Fulton J. SheenFor the Angelic Doctor, the reason of conceptual knowledge is just the contrary! It is not his distance from the animal that renders abstraction necessary; it is his distance from God. Abstraction is not a condition of a push from below; it is a result of a fall from above. Abstraction is necessary because our intellect is imperfect. This is the fundamental reason.
Fulton J. SheenThe mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.
Fulton J. SheenThis is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.
Fulton J. SheenBeing is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
Fulton J. SheenTag: being
When experimental psychology limits itself to rats and kittens, squabs and eyelids, philosophy of nature has little opportunity for formation. But when experimental psychology delivers over its findings concerning phenomenal manifestations of the mind, then the philosophy of nature may apply his philosophical principles.
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