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... beliefs and aspirations . What I have called philosophy is of course to such positivism of the nature of a dream , and that a foolish and pernicious one . The manner in which I have tried to help clear thought I must leave the following ...
... beliefs and aspirations . What I have called philosophy is of course to such positivism of the nature of a dream , and that a foolish and pernicious one . The manner in which I have tried to help clear thought I must leave the following ...
Page xxxv
... belief in thought : a feeling that things were worth thinking about , that thought was worth effort , that half - thought or loose thought was something to be despised , that the getting to the bottom of a thing was what would repay the ...
... belief in thought : a feeling that things were worth thinking about , that thought was worth effort , that half - thought or loose thought was something to be despised , that the getting to the bottom of a thing was what would repay the ...
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... believing - means something very different from the easy process which many call by that name : a man in whom desire to believe and desire to believe nothing that is not the truth are equally balanced . There is no real intellectual ...
... believing - means something very different from the easy process which many call by that name : a man in whom desire to believe and desire to believe nothing that is not the truth are equally balanced . There is no real intellectual ...
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... belief of the more thinking . Human pro- gress has been what it is , under God's Providence , because there have not ... believing in God , whose Providence has made men to advance as he has . If we wish , as men , to be wiser , better ...
... belief of the more thinking . Human pro- gress has been what it is , under God's Providence , because there have not ... believing in God , whose Providence has made men to advance as he has . If we wish , as men , to be wiser , better ...
Page xli
... Belief of the Material World . For example " Belief in external reality is the anticipation " of a given effect to a given antecedent " ... " Between " the world and mind there is no comparison , the things " are not homogeneous ...
... Belief of the Material World . For example " Belief in external reality is the anticipation " of a given effect to a given antecedent " ... " Between " the world and mind there is no comparison , the things " are not homogeneous ...
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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.