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Page xii
... language , underlies it as its foundation : how , I shall discuss in the following pages . I think then that the Philosophy of the Human Mind ' is now in the way to divide itself into different branches , all , it seems to me , hopeful ...
... language , underlies it as its foundation : how , I shall discuss in the following pages . I think then that the Philosophy of the Human Mind ' is now in the way to divide itself into different branches , all , it seems to me , hopeful ...
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... language : it is the same manner of thought as is very frequently called ' positivism ' . A real philosophy without notionalism , and a real , honest , thorough , study of nature without the feeling that we are to find our philosophy ...
... language : it is the same manner of thought as is very frequently called ' positivism ' . A real philosophy without notionalism , and a real , honest , thorough , study of nature without the feeling that we are to find our philosophy ...
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... language . If I had looked at the substance more than at the method the arrangement might possibly have been different , Dr Whewell joining with his definite physics much more of what I call the philosophical view . - Of these books ...
... language . If I had looked at the substance more than at the method the arrangement might possibly have been different , Dr Whewell joining with his definite physics much more of what I call the philosophical view . - Of these books ...
Page xlii
... language is apt to go " beyond this ; out of all the particular experiences ( which " alone constitute the real evidence for the proposition ) we con- " struct an experience in the abstract , a most anomalous fiction , " that goes the ...
... language is apt to go " beyond this ; out of all the particular experiences ( which " alone constitute the real evidence for the proposition ) we con- " struct an experience in the abstract , a most anomalous fiction , " that goes the ...
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... 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 facts of mind ; giving , or ...
... 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 facts of mind ; giving , or ...
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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.