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... phenomenalist . In spite of this , the language of philosophers constantly betokens the notion , held in a manner which seems to me confused , of a double point of departure or source of reality : of the notion , in face of each other ...
... phenomenalist . In spite of this , the language of philosophers constantly betokens the notion , held in a manner which seems to me confused , of a double point of departure or source of reality : of the notion , in face of each other ...
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... phenomenalism . But in reality , it is not the centre , but the starting point , for our description of the phenomenal ... phenomenalist is free and the same for any one , and we might call it ' cosmo- centric ' except in so far as ...
... phenomenalism . But in reality , it is not the centre , but the starting point , for our description of the phenomenal ... phenomenalist is free and the same for any one , and we might call it ' cosmo- centric ' except in so far as ...
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... phenomenalist mind or spirit . I am going , after this , to do the best I can to show the actual way in which we come to know what we do know , and to examine knowledge itself instead of the ( supposed ) matter of knowledge , which is ...
... phenomenalist mind or spirit . I am going , after this , to do the best I can to show the actual way in which we come to know what we do know , and to examine knowledge itself instead of the ( supposed ) matter of knowledge , which is ...
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... phenomenalist spirit , so far as one has a tendency to sink ( as I should say ) into it , inexpressibly depressing and desolate . We are supposed to wake , not into a world ( for even a world or universe is something for the imagination ...
... phenomenalist spirit , so far as one has a tendency to sink ( as I should say ) into it , inexpressibly depressing and desolate . We are supposed to wake , not into a world ( for even a world or universe is something for the imagination ...
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... phenomenalist view and the philosophical , whether this latter be regarded as a wider view or as a companion abstraction . The phenomenalist view considers us as beings ( or rather as something ) susceptible of knowledge , considers ...
... phenomenalist view and the philosophical , whether this latter be regarded as a wider view or as a companion abstraction . The phenomenalist view considers us as beings ( or rather as something ) susceptible of knowledge , considers ...
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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.