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... knowledge or knowledge of experience can help us except in those subordinate manners to which I have alluded , as to judge what is attainable , or by what means we may best gain our end . The purpose then of what I have here written is ...
... knowledge or knowledge of experience can help us except in those subordinate manners to which I have alluded , as to judge what is attainable , or by what means we may best gain our end . The purpose then of what I have here written is ...
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... knowledge which we have already of the former which gives interest to our study of the latter . No doubt when we can rightly ap- preciate and understand what man has done and does , it will mightily add to and deepen our knowledge of ...
... knowledge which we have already of the former which gives interest to our study of the latter . No doubt when we can rightly ap- preciate and understand what man has done and does , it will mightily add to and deepen our knowledge of ...
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... knowledge which go to make up the universe which belongs to the point of view of physical science : and what I shall endeavour to show is that this phenomenalism , thoroughly true in its own province , and such , that if alien elements ...
... knowledge which go to make up the universe which belongs to the point of view of physical science : and what I shall endeavour to show is that this phenomenalism , thoroughly true in its own province , and such , that if alien elements ...
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... knowledge by a succession of mental efforts which are perpetually self - correcting , the correction however being of that kind which I just described , so that while our actual knowledge turns out something different in nature from ...
... knowledge by a succession of mental efforts which are perpetually self - correcting , the correction however being of that kind which I just described , so that while our actual knowledge turns out something different in nature from ...
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... knowledge something of the character , always , of hunting after something which eludes our grasp , of endeavouring , in a way , to under- stand the meaning of our own knowledge , and to find out why we think in the manner in which we ...
... knowledge something of the character , always , of hunting after something which eludes our grasp , of endeavouring , in a way , to under- stand the meaning of our own knowledge , and to find out why we think in the manner in which 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.