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... laws , is something different from mind as we feel it , or ourselves , thinking and choosing what we will do : and the generic mind in such organizations , with its future , so to speak , marked out for it by nature , is something ...
... laws , is something different from mind as we feel it , or ourselves , thinking and choosing what we will do : and the generic mind in such organizations , with its future , so to speak , marked out for it by nature , is something ...
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... laws of which he is seeking is to the phenomenalist . In spite of this , the language of philosophers constantly betokens the notion , held in a manner which seems to me confused , of a double point of departure or source of reality ...
... laws of which he is seeking is to the phenomenalist . In spite of this , the language of philosophers constantly betokens the notion , held in a manner which seems to me confused , of a double point of departure or source of reality ...
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... laws , changes , mechanical and chemical , take place in the eye , the optic nerve , and the brain , and a change perhaps takes place in the movements ( such as they were previously ) of the whole body , so that ( to put the language ...
... laws , changes , mechanical and chemical , take place in the eye , the optic nerve , and the brain , and a change perhaps takes place in the movements ( such as they were previously ) of the whole body , so that ( to put the language ...
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... laws of action of natural agents , the special kind , i . e . genus , species , & c . in organized beings , being I suppose more or less a pheno- menal puzzle . An organized being is , phenomenally , a sort of focus or centre , where ...
... laws of action of natural agents , the special kind , i . e . genus , species , & c . in organized beings , being I suppose more or less a pheno- menal puzzle . An organized being is , phenomenally , a sort of focus or centre , where ...
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... laws , and to trace again the working of the general laws in the particular facts , and that in all this there is or may be ( as is most true ) both intense intellectual pleasure and high moral elevation . But what do we mean by ' laws ...
... laws , and to trace again the working of the general laws in the particular facts , and that in all this there is or may be ( as is most true ) both intense intellectual pleasure and high moral elevation . But what do we mean by ' laws ...
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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.