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Page xii
... notions ' , and knowledge , instead of bringing us into real contact with the thing we know , appears as something between us and it , either altering its real reality to accommodate it to us , or forming some screen or barrier between ...
... notions ' , and knowledge , instead of bringing us into real contact with the thing we know , appears as something between us and it , either altering its real reality to accommodate it to us , or forming some screen or barrier between ...
Page xxxii
... notion of an ideal of what should be done or what they and the human race should aim at that this and much like it is visionary and beyond the reach of human faculties : nor do I less wish to prevent the truth of their look at nature ...
... notion of an ideal of what should be done or what they and the human race should aim at that this and much like it is visionary and beyond the reach of human faculties : nor do I less wish to prevent the truth of their look at nature ...
Page xli
... notions which I have given will be found given in Mr Bain's book more distinctly than in any other , as for instance in his chapter on the Perception and Belief of the Material World . For example " Belief in external reality is the ...
... notions which I have given will be found given in Mr Bain's book more distinctly than in any other , as for instance in his chapter on the Perception and Belief of the Material World . For example " Belief in external reality is the ...
Page xlvii
... notion of using intelligence , not merely for advance- ment in life , not merely for the learning what others have thought , but for individual just and correct thought , and the application of knowledge to the aid of this . But I have ...
... notion of using intelligence , not merely for advance- ment in life , not merely for the learning what others have thought , but for individual just and correct thought , and the application of knowledge to the aid of this . But I have ...
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... would probably have called themselves and been called ' phænomenics ' or by some term of similar import . The notion of unreality involved etymologically in the term ' phænomenon ' would not 1 LIBRAR Y CHAPTER I PHENOMENALISM.
... would probably have called themselves and been called ' phænomenics ' or by some term of similar import . The notion of unreality involved etymologically in the term ' phænomenon ' would not 1 LIBRAR Y CHAPTER I PHENOMENALISM.
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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.