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... secondary qualities , he makes it a charac- ter of these latter that they are perceived through a medium , as colour through light . I cannot enter into this language . So far as it is the subjective sensation or feeling which is spoken ...
... secondary qualities , he makes it a charac- ter of these latter that they are perceived through a medium , as colour through light . I cannot enter into this language . So far as it is the subjective sensation or feeling which is spoken ...
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... secondary , which does not correspond to the character which seems to belong to it . So far as we suppose two ... qualities of the things known are space , solidity , & c . ( whatever language we use ) and another kind of knowledge in which ...
... secondary , which does not correspond to the character which seems to belong to it . So far as we suppose two ... qualities of the things known are space , solidity , & c . ( whatever language we use ) and another kind of knowledge in which ...
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... secondary qualities there was only a correspondence , or contemporaneousness , be- tween feeling on the one side and the presence of the qualities of matter on the other . This notion as to the primary quali- ties , which is to the ...
... secondary qualities there was only a correspondence , or contemporaneousness , be- tween feeling on the one side and the presence of the qualities of matter on the other . This notion as to the primary quali- ties , which is to the ...
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... qualities seems to me indistinctly to represent , is this : that active feeling , exertion of our will , is ... secondary , were resemblances of the qualities ( the primary qualities being , speaking generally , those known by mechanical ...
... qualities seems to me indistinctly to represent , is this : that active feeling , exertion of our will , is ... secondary , were resemblances of the qualities ( the primary qualities being , speaking generally , those known by mechanical ...
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... secondary ( chemical ) qualities were unlike the qualities . A feeling em- bodying pleasure or pain must be most thoroughly incommen- surable and out of relation with any quality which can be sup- posed in unliving matter . As at the ...
... secondary ( chemical ) qualities were unlike the qualities . A feeling em- bodying pleasure or pain must be most thoroughly incommen- surable and out of relation with any quality which can be sup- posed in unliving matter . As at 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.