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... express it , amounts , in many cases , to a blinking the great and real ques- tions , which ought not to be encouraged . This histo- rical tendency is a part of the character of mind which may be called ' positivism ' , though it ...
... express it , amounts , in many cases , to a blinking the great and real ques- tions , which ought not to be encouraged . This histo- rical tendency is a part of the character of mind which may be called ' positivism ' , though it ...
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... express it , let himself be - do what he must or will do - consider thought for him as what the animal's instinct is for it , his ca- pital or instrument for material life , and the utmost thing worth thinking of , if he goes so far ...
... express it , let himself be - do what he must or will do - consider thought for him as what the animal's instinct is for it , his ca- pital or instrument for material life , and the utmost thing worth thinking of , if he goes so far ...
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... express it , in all the first portion of it , what I think myself , and shows in the second what it is that I want to under- stand and what I desiderate . " When we come to communicate with other beings , and " ascertain by the signs of ...
... express it , in all the first portion of it , what I think myself , and shows in the second what it is that I want to under- stand and what I desiderate . " When we come to communicate with other beings , and " ascertain by the signs of ...
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... express , the facts of mind in language most concretely ( so to call it ) physiological , and proceeding on very rapidly ( I mean with very little of an intermediation or process ) to the more complicated or as we might say abstract ...
... express , the facts of mind in language most concretely ( so to call it ) physiological , and proceeding on very rapidly ( I mean with very little of an intermediation or process ) to the more complicated or as we might say abstract ...
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... express in sub- stance the same thing , and what the thing is , will appear in what follows . The reason for the change is , because in the purely intellectual application which I shall now make of the term , ' phenomenalism ' may ...
... express in sub- stance the same thing , and what the thing is , will appear in what follows . The reason for the change is , because in the purely intellectual application which I shall now make of the term , ' phenomenalism ' may ...
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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.