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... ourselves are . My feeling about the whole ' Philosophy of the Human Mind is this : that at present it is attacked , and with reason , from two opposite sides ; that its philosophy will not satisfy philosophers , nor its physiology ...
... ourselves are . My feeling about the whole ' Philosophy of the Human Mind is this : that at present it is attacked , and with reason , from two opposite sides ; that its philosophy will not satisfy philosophers , nor its physiology ...
Page xi
... ourselves and from within , is something to me of an entirely different nature , and leads to entirely different fields of speculation from the physio- psychology which I have been speaking of . I think that those who have the truest ...
... ourselves and from within , is something to me of an entirely different nature , and leads to entirely different fields of speculation from the physio- psychology which I have been speaking of . I think that those who have the truest ...
Page xiv
... ourselves before we can , with reason , apply our knowledge of experience to action : namely , what we want : what we mean to do with ourselves , what ends we wish to gain , what it is well we should do , what we are called upon to do ...
... ourselves before we can , with reason , apply our knowledge of experience to action : namely , what we want : what we mean to do with ourselves , what ends we wish to gain , what it is well we should do , what we are called upon to do ...
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... 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 different from our mind as we feel it , which is more even than ...
... 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 different from our mind as we feel it , which is more even than ...
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... ourselves and having an opinion of our own , with care and any amount of effort that it should be , to the ut- most of our power , the true and the right one : a faith in our intelligence , or , which seems to me the same thing , a ...
... ourselves and having an opinion of our own , with care and any amount of effort that it should be , to the ut- most of our power , the true and the right one : a faith in our intelligence , or , which seems to me the same thing , a ...
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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.