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... questions of the human mind , or tell us what we ought to do . I have always had a very strong opinion that the later psychology , or Philosophy of the Human Mind , has neglected a large province of consideration which really belonged ...
... questions of the human mind , or tell us what we ought to do . I have always had a very strong opinion that the later psychology , or Philosophy of the Human Mind , has neglected a large province of consideration which really belonged ...
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... question of the relation of our mind to our corporeal organization , and the question of the distribution of mind more or less like ours through various organizations , are the two questions of physics far the most interesting : but ...
... question of the relation of our mind to our corporeal organization , and the question of the distribution of mind more or less like ours through various organizations , are the two questions of physics far the most interesting : but ...
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... 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 encouraged . This histo- rical tendency is a ...
... 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 encouraged . This histo- rical tendency is a ...
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... questions put really upon all sorts of other grounds : one finds a care- lessness in the examination of argument which seems to show very little value for what it professes to make out : one seems to find , that mental and moral questions ...
... questions put really upon all sorts of other grounds : one finds a care- lessness in the examination of argument which seems to show very little value for what it professes to make out : one seems to find , that mental and moral questions ...
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... a physiologist or physical philosopher , who has taken this supposed independent reality and general expe- rience for his basis all along . The question with me about all this is , What ought we to think xliv INTRODUCTION .
... a physiologist or physical philosopher , who has taken this supposed independent reality and general expe- rience for his basis all along . The question with me about all this is , What ought we to think xliv INTRODUCTION .
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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.