William Rowan Hamilton Quote

We are naturally disposed to refer everything we do not know to principles with which we are familiar.


In: Henry Longueville Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, Lecture IV (pp. 71-72)


We are naturally disposed to refer everything we do not know to principles with which we are familiar.

We are naturally disposed to refer everything we do not know to principles with which we are familiar.

We are naturally disposed to refer everything we do not know to principles with which we are familiar.

We are naturally disposed to refer everything we do not know to principles with which we are familiar.