On Truth: A Systematic InquiryKegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889 - 580 pagini |
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Pagina 32
... merely offered for the purpose of clearing away any obscurity which may temporarily exist in the reader's mind about a matter , the truth of which will be clearly certain to him when he care- fully considers what his own consciousness ...
... merely offered for the purpose of clearing away any obscurity which may temporarily exist in the reader's mind about a matter , the truth of which will be clearly certain to him when he care- fully considers what his own consciousness ...
Pagina 41
... merely , " We cannot conceive the contrary of such proposition , " is to make a mere assertion of inability , and is therefore a quite in- adequate description of that active power of positive per- ception which we all act upon when we ...
... merely , " We cannot conceive the contrary of such proposition , " is to make a mere assertion of inability , and is therefore a quite in- adequate description of that active power of positive per- ception which we all act upon when we ...
Pagina 42
... merely that a thing is unknown to us , or that it is impossible for us to know it . The former perception refers to ... mere law of our own minds , but is also a law which applies to all things ; for we have seen that it so declares , if ...
... merely that a thing is unknown to us , or that it is impossible for us to know it . The former perception refers to ... mere law of our own minds , but is also a law which applies to all things ; for we have seen that it so declares , if ...
Pagina 50
... mere negative condition , due to an impotence on our part to imagine a thing we have never experienced . It is a positive percep- tion . Let the reader test this for himself . Let him examine his own mind and see whether , when he ...
... mere negative condition , due to an impotence on our part to imagine a thing we have never experienced . It is a positive percep- tion . Let the reader test this for himself . Let him examine his own mind and see whether , when he ...
Pagina 51
... merely of the existence of that antecedent state of things , which is named " a motive , " and of that consequent which is our " resolve , " but also of the motive as something urging us . We know and feel that it is active , and ...
... merely of the existence of that antecedent state of things , which is named " a motive , " and of that consequent which is our " resolve , " but also of the motive as something urging us . We know and feel that it is active , and ...
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absolutely abstract ideas action activity adverted affirm amongst animals apprehend assertion beauty believe bodily body called carbonic acid causation cause certainty changes chapter colour conception consciousness consentience consider course creatures Demy 8vo deny direct distinct Edition emotions evident existence experience express external fact felt Fuegians fundamental G. H. Lewes groups of feelings human humerus idealism idealists imagination immaterial inference inorganic instinct intel intelligence John Stuart Mill judgment kind knowledge known language law of contradiction less living material matter means mind moral motion natural selection nature never Nevertheless objects organs ourselves oxygen parenchyma perceive phenomena physical science pleasurable possess principle protoplasm qualities reason recognize reflection reflex reflex action relations rience scepticism seen self-evident sensations sensuous Small crown 8vo sounds spinal cord spontaneously substance supposed things thought tion tissue true truth ultimate uncon unconscious unconscious inference unity universe various words