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Page viii
... appear , I have not attempted to give any very regular form or artistic completeness . This explanation is almost necessary for the understanding of the beginning of them , which is abrupt , and refers , it will be seen , to something ...
... appear , I have not attempted to give any very regular form or artistic completeness . This explanation is almost necessary for the understanding of the beginning of them , which is abrupt , and refers , it will be seen , to something ...
Page ix
... appears to me to attach itself to a great deal of that a very mis- taken view , which I have called generally the wrong psychology or mis - psychology . For the particular nature of this error I must refer to what follows , and will ...
... appears to me to attach itself to a great deal of that a very mis- taken view , which I have called generally the wrong psychology or mis - psychology . For the particular nature of this error I must refer to what follows , and will ...
Page xii
... appears as something between us and it , either altering its real reality to accommodate it to us , or forming some screen or barrier between us and it , or some way disguising it — but on this I shall have to speak in abundance . I ...
... appears as something between us and it , either altering its real reality to accommodate it to us , or forming some screen or barrier between us and it , or some way disguising it — but on this I shall have to speak in abundance . I ...
Page xxi
... appear than it is valued , at first , when it does appear , and that the manner in which the public ear , at any time , is open only to a few or to something said about them has a tendency to make thought more parasitic ( so to call it ) ...
... appear than it is valued , at first , when it does appear , and that the manner in which the public ear , at any time , is open only to a few or to something said about them has a tendency to make thought more parasitic ( so to call it ) ...
Page xxiii
... appear that what I have called criticism was my object , which it is not . I care not the least to dispute what any one says , ex- cept with a view of clearing my own thoughts and those of others . I have noticed what seem to me various ...
... appear that what I have called criticism was my object , which it is not . I care not the least to dispute what any one says , ex- cept with a view of clearing my own thoughts and those of others . I have noticed what seem to me various ...
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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.