On Truth: A Systematic InquiryKegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889 - 580 pagini |
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Pagina 17
... changes of its feelings . Such a being , it is affirmed , we can never know apart from our various " states of feeling ; " and , as we can never even know it , we most certainly can never be " supremely certain " about its existence ...
... changes of its feelings . Such a being , it is affirmed , we can never know apart from our various " states of feeling ; " and , as we can never even know it , we most certainly can never be " supremely certain " about its existence ...
Pagina 45
... changes in our bodies , induced by surrounding agencies , we experience " sensations . " Through such sensations ( actual and remem- bered ) " ideas " are aroused in us , and we perceive what we know to be " external objects . " Through ...
... changes in our bodies , induced by surrounding agencies , we experience " sensations . " Through such sensations ( actual and remem- bered ) " ideas " are aroused in us , and we perceive what we know to be " external objects . " Through ...
Pagina 48
... change occurs , or when anything strikes us as being a new thing , we always spontaneously look out for its cause . What our minds really seem to us to declare about causation , is in harmony with this natural habit of mankind , and may ...
... change occurs , or when anything strikes us as being a new thing , we always spontaneously look out for its cause . What our minds really seem to us to declare about causation , is in harmony with this natural habit of mankind , and may ...
Pagina 49
... change in a thing which already exists is also , to a certain extent , itself a new existence , since it is a new mode of existence . It cannot , therefore , have been produced by itself , because it is a new mode , and it cannot be a ...
... change in a thing which already exists is also , to a certain extent , itself a new existence , since it is a new mode of existence . It cannot , therefore , have been produced by itself , because it is a new mode , and it cannot be a ...
Pagina 51
... has produced . Such a cause may itself be some change or new existence , or it may be some- * See above , p . 43 , for a reply to a sceptical objection . thing of indefinite stability and duration ; as , e.g. HOME TRUTHS . 51.
... has produced . Such a cause may itself be some change or new existence , or it may be some- * See above , p . 43 , for a reply to a sceptical objection . thing of indefinite stability and duration ; as , e.g. HOME TRUTHS . 51.
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