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... relation with human in- telligence , the various intelligence of our humbler fellow - creatures in the universe , the lower animals : mind belongs to them as well as to us . Mental human anatomy , which is of two kinds , the anatomy of ...
... relation with human in- telligence , the various intelligence of our humbler fellow - creatures in the universe , the lower animals : mind belongs to them as well as to us . Mental human anatomy , which is of two kinds , the anatomy of ...
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... 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 they are physics ...
... 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 they are physics ...
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... relation which the manner of thought at one of these extremes bears to that at the other . I am not going in what is now published , for reasons which I have given , to speak of the writers towards one of the extremes : but to show the ...
... relation which the manner of thought at one of these extremes bears to that at the other . I am not going in what is now published , for reasons which I have given , to speak of the writers towards one of the extremes : but to show the ...
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... relation they bear the one to the other . " " In the same way I want to understand the value of the language ( not at all peculiar to Mr Bain ) that “ we " have got into the way of maintaining the abstraction ' ( i.e. the universe of ...
... relation they bear the one to the other . " " In the same way I want to understand the value of the language ( not at all peculiar to Mr Bain ) that “ we " have got into the way of maintaining the abstraction ' ( i.e. the universe of ...
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... relation of this which thus fills our mind to the mind which it fills carries us , as I hope we shall see , to a higher objectiveness or higher idea of existence . I shall consider a little what meaning there is in the notion of the ...
... relation of this which thus fills our mind to the mind which it fills carries us , as I hope we shall see , to a higher objectiveness or higher idea of existence . I shall consider a little what meaning there is in the notion of 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.