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... readers to un- derstand and use what they have got : but then by understanding and using a philosophical book I do not mean simply taking in what it says , and thinking , so far as this is thinking , accordingly : I mean INTRODUCTION . XXV.
... readers to un- derstand and use what they have got : but then by understanding and using a philosophical book I do not mean simply taking in what it says , and thinking , so far as this is thinking , accordingly : I mean INTRODUCTION . XXV.
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... simply as a branch of literature and science , but in its practical character , as intimately connected with human action and the direction of that , and since religion takes that province also , I do not think they can act ...
... simply as a branch of literature and science , but in its practical character , as intimately connected with human action and the direction of that , and since religion takes that province also , I do not think they can act ...
Page xxxix
... simply a dreamy and imagina- tive animal , and a grown man of sense will quit such imaginations , and if I may so express it , let himself be - do what he must or will do - consider thought for him as what the animal's instinct is for ...
... simply a dreamy and imagina- tive animal , and a grown man of sense will quit such imaginations , and if I may so express it , let himself be - do what he must or will do - consider thought for him as what the animal's instinct is for ...
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... simply in being beyond any evidence " that we can have , but also in being a self - contradiction . We ' are affirming that to have an existence out of our minds ' which we cannot know but as in our minds . In words we " assert ...
... simply in being beyond any evidence " that we can have , but also in being a self - contradiction . We ' are affirming that to have an existence out of our minds ' which we cannot know but as in our minds . In words we " assert ...
Page xliv
... simply the external world , but we , corporeally , that vanish - and yet all this occurs in the middle of a sys- tem giving an occount of our bodies , our organs , our senses , & c . I will not dwell upon this : so far from mentioning ...
... simply the external world , but we , corporeally , that vanish - and yet all this occurs in the middle of a sys- tem giving an occount of our bodies , our organs , our senses , & c . I will not dwell upon this : so far from mentioning ...
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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.