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Page viii
... philosophical controversy is a worse confusion than a battle without generals or discipline , and as we come more to morals and ethics the dust and smoke become tenfold worse . I have wished therefore to examine some things in the ...
... philosophical controversy is a worse confusion than a battle without generals or discipline , and as we come more to morals and ethics the dust and smoke become tenfold worse . I have wished therefore to examine some things in the ...
Page ix
... philosophers , nor its physiology physiologists ; and that it will have to divide itself , for utility and productiveness , into two lines of thought , very different , rarely likely to be pursued by the same people , each very likely ...
... philosophers , nor its physiology physiologists ; and that it will have to divide itself , for utility and productiveness , into two lines of thought , very different , rarely likely to be pursued by the same people , each very likely ...
Page xxiv
... philosophical books , which , from the nature of them , can never in any age be numerous : but for what reason I know not , the seed seems scarcely to go on from germination to fruit , and the philosophical books are more admired than ...
... philosophical books , which , from the nature of them , can never in any age be numerous : but for what reason I know not , the seed seems scarcely to go on from germination to fruit , and the philosophical books are more admired than ...
Page xxv
... philosophical . It is not to fill any void , or make good any deficiency that I write , according to what prefaces usually say : it is to help readers to un- derstand and use what they have got : but then by understanding and using a ...
... philosophical . It is not to fill any void , or make good any deficiency that I write , according to what prefaces usually say : it is to help readers to un- derstand and use what they have got : but then by understanding and using a ...
Page xxvi
... philosophical one in comparison with ours : but as to the readers , his impatience at their supposed sluggishness of thought is almost amusing : and as to the writers , it does not seem to me that we are at all inferior . I will now ...
... philosophical one in comparison with ours : but as to the readers , his impatience at their supposed sluggishness of thought is almost amusing : and as to the writers , it does not seem to me that we are at all inferior . I will now ...
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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.