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Page ix
... Human Mind ' or Psychology , and there 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 ...
... Human Mind ' or Psychology , and there 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 ...
Page x
... human mind , or tell us what we ought to do . I have always had a very strong opinion that the later psychology , or Philosophy of the Human Mind , has neglected a large province of consideration which really belonged to it , in its ...
... human mind , or tell us what we ought to do . I have always had a very strong opinion that the later psychology , or Philosophy of the Human Mind , has neglected a large province of consideration which really belonged to it , in its ...
Page xii
... Human Mind ' is now in the way to divide itself into different branches , all , it seems to me , hopeful and promising result the manner in which its method has hitherto been faulty is one of the matters of my discussion . The second ...
... Human Mind ' is now in the way to divide itself into different branches , all , it seems to me , hopeful and promising result the manner in which its method has hitherto been faulty is one of the matters of my discussion . The second ...
Page xiii
... 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 and another ...
... 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 and another ...
Page xiv
... Human Mind damages both , especially philosophy proper , by its confusion of view- this I have endeavoured to exhibit : ' notionalism ' or ' relativism ' damages both , philosophy by cutting off from it all life , and fruit , and ...
... Human Mind damages both , especially philosophy proper , by its confusion of view- this I have endeavoured to exhibit : ' notionalism ' or ' relativism ' damages both , philosophy by cutting off from it all life , and fruit , and ...
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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.