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Page xxiii
... suggested much of it not at all that they are books which I particularly follow , in which case such heterogeneous teaching must produce rather singular results . But it is my nature at least to learn as much from what I differ with as ...
... suggested much of it not at all that they are books which I particularly follow , in which case such heterogeneous teaching must produce rather singular results . But it is my nature at least to learn as much from what I differ with as ...
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... suggest truer thoughts about it than perhaps the others would . This is the same thing as what I have meant when I have said that though philosophy on the one side , and phy- siology and physical science on the other , are very ...
... suggest truer thoughts about it than perhaps the others would . This is the same thing as what I have meant when I have said that though philosophy on the one side , and phy- siology and physical science on the other , are very ...
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... suggests more strongly than any book which I happen to know that which appears to me the great need of our philosophy at the present time , namely , a reconsideration of our Philosophy of the Human Mind , on which we have so many books ...
... suggests more strongly than any book which I happen to know that which appears to me the great need of our philosophy at the present time , namely , a reconsideration of our Philosophy of the Human Mind , on which we have so many books ...
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... suggest thought in others , and what I see but indistinctly may be seen by them more clearly , and put in a better and truer light . For the best thing that I can hope , and the thing which I most wish , for any- thing which I may say ...
... suggest thought in others , and what I see but indistinctly may be seen by them more clearly , and put in a better and truer light . For the best thing that I can hope , and the thing which I most wish , for any- thing which I may say ...
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... suggests the notion ( in ordinary philoso- phical language ) of sensation or perception being only passive on our ... suggest to us , it is an extension , loosely speaking we may say a generalization , of that matter of which our body ...
... suggests the notion ( in ordinary philoso- phical language ) of sensation or perception being only passive on our ... suggest to us , it is an extension , loosely speaking we may say a generalization , of that matter of which our body ...
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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.