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... passage at length , which expresses more clearly than I could express it , in all the first portion of it , what I think myself , and shows in the second what it is that I want to under- stand and what I desiderate . " When we come to ...
... passage at length , which expresses more clearly than I could express it , in all the first portion of it , what I think myself , and shows in the second what it is that I want to under- stand and what I desiderate . " When we come to ...
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... passage of it and want of attention to it must of course be allowed to some extent , and may perhaps be so to a very considerable extent - this is a question which I cannot discuss now . This sensation or feeling is of course a very ...
... passage of it and want of attention to it must of course be allowed to some extent , and may perhaps be so to a very considerable extent - this is a question which I cannot discuss now . This sensation or feeling is of course a very ...
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... passage , in the manner which I have just described . That is , we have a sensation of it , in the way in which we are now using that word : and if we did not have such a sensation of it , it would be to us and we should be as though it ...
... passage , in the manner which I have just described . That is , we have a sensation of it , in the way in which we are now using that word : and if we did not have such a sensation of it , it would be to us and we should be as though it ...
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... passage through them to other sensations , and it is graduated — there is a sort of scale . The sensation of space is lower , if we like to call it so , than that of time , for we go beyond our simply conscious selves the sensation of ...
... passage through them to other sensations , and it is graduated — there is a sort of scale . The sensation of space is lower , if we like to call it so , than that of time , for we go beyond our simply conscious selves the sensation of ...
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... passage of his1 . " That which we call ' I ' is the object of intel- ' lect alone . We are never objects of sense to ourselves . A man can see and touch his body , but he cannot see and touch " himself ....... When the cognizance of ...
... passage of his1 . " That which we call ' I ' is the object of intel- ' lect alone . We are never objects of sense to ourselves . A man can see and touch his body , but he cannot see and touch " himself ....... When the cognizance of ...
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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.