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... conceive to take place in any kind of beings ( or zoöcosm as I have later called it , i.e. system of kinds ) in consequence of any natural tendencies in them or circumstances about them , inde- pendent of such free choice and ...
... conceive to take place in any kind of beings ( or zoöcosm as I have later called it , i.e. system of kinds ) in consequence of any natural tendencies in them or circumstances about them , inde- pendent of such free choice and ...
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... conceive to ourselves an " abstraction that comprehends all our experience , past and present , and all the experience of others , which abstraction is " the utmost that our minds can attain to respecting an external " and material ...
... conceive to ourselves an " abstraction that comprehends all our experience , past and present , and all the experience of others , which abstraction is " the utmost that our minds can attain to respecting an external " and material ...
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... conceive them or think about them , and how deep in us goes the conceiving and thinking of them by each one of us in the same way , is what we cannot tell . Hence too the effort of philosophy from the first to find fact or reality not ...
... conceive them or think about them , and how deep in us goes the conceiving and thinking of them by each one of us in the same way , is what we cannot tell . Hence too the effort of philosophy from the first to find fact or reality not ...
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... conceive that of truth , phenomenally considered , there are two great tests : the one , its answering to our action , the other , its harmonizing all our sensive powers and all the different experience of different men : or , in other ...
... conceive that of truth , phenomenally considered , there are two great tests : the one , its answering to our action , the other , its harmonizing all our sensive powers and all the different experience of different men : or , in other ...
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... conceiving this phenomenalist spirit , carefully avoiding , in our intellectual conception of it , any moral approbation or disapprobation , is to conceive what exists existing without being known ( I can hardly say con- ceived when we ...
... conceiving this phenomenalist spirit , carefully avoiding , in our intellectual conception of it , any moral approbation or disapprobation , is to conceive what exists existing without being known ( I can hardly say con- ceived when we ...
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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.