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... advance of human thought and feeling , upon which depends what I have in these pages called ' Real ' Logic : all these things seem to me to belong the one to the other : the war- fare constantly carried on between the partizans of one ...
... advance of human thought and feeling , upon which depends what I have in these pages called ' Real ' Logic : all these things seem to me to belong the one to the other : the war- fare constantly carried on between the partizans of one ...
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... advance in civilization , may be taken as one sign of this : at the same time the world is in some respects as young as , or , if one might ven- ture the expression , more young than , ever , and never I suppose were hopefulness and ...
... advance in civilization , may be taken as one sign of this : at the same time the world is in some respects as young as , or , if one might ven- ture the expression , more young than , ever , and never I suppose were hopefulness and ...
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... advance as he has . If we wish , as men , to be wiser , better , happier , let us believe that to some degree at least we can make ourselves so , and let us try . The following pages are a very humble attempt , or beginning of an ...
... advance as he has . If we wish , as men , to be wiser , better , happier , let us believe that to some degree at least we can make ourselves so , and let us try . The following pages are a very humble attempt , or beginning of an ...
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John Grote. or beginning of an attempt , towards advance in the intellectual direction : if they are at all a successful at- tempt , it will be through others taking up anything which may happen to be right in them , and pursuing it : I ...
John Grote. or beginning of an attempt , towards advance in the intellectual direction : if they are at all a successful at- tempt , it will be through others taking up anything which may happen to be right in them , and pursuing it : I ...
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... advance- ment in life , not merely for the learning what others have thought , but for individual just and correct thought , and the application of knowledge to the aid of this . But I have said enough . may mention here , about the ...
... advance- ment in life , not merely for the learning what others have thought , but for individual just and correct thought , and the application of knowledge to the aid of this . But I have said enough . may mention here , about the ...
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Page 228 - He knows that there is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature, if it be theory to infer more than we see. But other men unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be a fact that they see cubes and spheres, spacious apartments and winding avenues. And these things are facts to them, because they are unconscious of the mental operation by which they have penetrated nature's disguise.
Page 63 - Because existence is not cognizable, absolutely and in itself, but only in special modes ; 2°, Because these modes can be known only if they stand in a certain relation to our faculties ; and 3°, Because the modes thus relative to our faculties are presented to, and known by, the mind only under modifications determined by these faculties themselves.