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Page ix
... perhaps may be said , that there are three main heads or kinds of philosophy in England at present , each of which it seems to me has appendant error : and it is against these errors that a great deal of what I say is directed . Of ...
... perhaps may be said , that there are three main heads or kinds of philosophy in England at present , each of which it seems to me has appendant error : and it is against these errors that a great deal of what I say is directed . Of ...
Page xii
... perhaps not quite , equivalent . I will only briefly describe this here as the realizing ( and any realizing must be mis - realizing , wrongly realizing ) our logical terms . We get from this what we may call a philosophy of ' notions ...
... perhaps not quite , equivalent . I will only briefly describe this here as the realizing ( and any realizing must be mis - realizing , wrongly realizing ) our logical terms . We get from this what we may call a philosophy of ' notions ...
Page xv
... perhaps at this moment ( in company probably with many others ) I feel special interest on account of the manner in which it seems to promise fruit , is the study of what we may call ' the facts of mind ' as we may see , observe ...
... perhaps at this moment ( in company probably with many others ) I feel special interest on account of the manner in which it seems to promise fruit , is the study of what we may call ' the facts of mind ' as we may see , observe ...
Page xviii
... perhaps too much . But the tendency of questions and subjects of all kinds at this time to run to history , if I may so express it , amounts , in many cases , to a blinking the great and real ques- tions , which ought not to be ...
... perhaps too much . But the tendency of questions and subjects of all kinds at this time to run to history , if I may so express it , amounts , in many cases , to a blinking the great and real ques- tions , which ought not to be ...
Page xxvi
... perhaps not . What is really the truth as to the philosophy of different periods and generations , we really cannot tell : we should perhaps consider Bishop Butler's generation a philosophical one in comparison with ours : but as to the ...
... perhaps not . What is really the truth as to the philosophy of different periods and generations , we really cannot tell : we should perhaps consider Bishop Butler's generation a philosophical one in comparison with ours : but as to the ...
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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.