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... matter , as what go to- gether to make up the universe . This I have variously commented on . I think the purpose of what I have said may be better understood through a few words here to the following effect . One of the branches of ...
... matter , as what go to- gether to make up the universe . This I have variously commented on . I think the purpose of what I have said may be better understood through a few words here to the following effect . One of the branches of ...
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John Grote. facts of matter , and knowledge about them must be pur- sued in the same manner in which the study of the facts of matter is - by observation , experiment , induction . But there are facts of mind , and what are more pro ...
John Grote. facts of matter , and knowledge about them must be pur- sued in the same manner in which the study of the facts of matter is - by observation , experiment , induction . But there are facts of mind , and what are more pro ...
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... matter- not something for so - called philosophers only or professed thinkers . The best philosopher is the man who can think most simply . Education and learning are wanted for thought just in the same degree to which , on the other ...
... matter- not something for so - called philosophers only or professed thinkers . The best philosopher is the man who can think most simply . Education and learning are wanted for thought just in the same degree to which , on the other ...
Page xxxix
... matter in- timate to them , a portion of their real selves : when they think this , they will be to a certain extent good philo- sophers already , for they will value what they think , be interested in it , and take pains about it ...
... matter in- timate to them , a portion of their real selves : when they think this , they will be to a certain extent good philo- sophers already , for they will value what they think , be interested in it , and take pains about it ...
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... matter , is the mistake of supposing the abstractions of the mind to have a separate and independent " existence . This is the doctrine of the Platonic ideas ' , or " " forms ' , which are understood to impart all that is common " to ...
... matter , is the mistake of supposing the abstractions of the mind to have a separate and independent " existence . This is the doctrine of the Platonic ideas ' , or " " forms ' , which are understood to impart all that is common " to ...
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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.