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Page xiii
... suppositions and abstractions , nor on the other hand disposed to rest in them as if the right dealing with them was the knowledge , and they all the furniture our mind needed : and with all these a good history of advance of human ...
... suppositions and abstractions , nor on the other hand disposed to rest in them as if the right dealing with them was the knowledge , and they all the furniture our mind needed : and with all these a good history of advance of human ...
Page xxvi
... Supposing this however to be so , it is evi- dent that in each school of thought there are books to which I make no reference , in regard of which I have not the least wish to pronounce that those which I notice are superior to them ...
... Supposing this however to be so , it is evi- dent that in each school of thought there are books to which I make no reference , in regard of which I have not the least wish to pronounce that those which I notice are superior to them ...
Page xxviii
... supposition that we not only perhaps do not , but cannot , know reality , that we do not know existence , but only ... suppositions , which belong to the sort of philosophy which I have called ' notionalism'- all these sorts of things ...
... supposition that we not only perhaps do not , but cannot , know reality , that we do not know existence , but only ... suppositions , which belong to the sort of philosophy which I have called ' notionalism'- all these sorts of things ...
Page xxxiv
... suppositions , sometimes perhaps of what may seem a wild kind - holding as I do most strongly , that there is no fruitful reasoning where there has not been much activity of imagination preceding . But everything of this kind seems to ...
... suppositions , sometimes perhaps of what may seem a wild kind - holding as I do most strongly , that there is no fruitful reasoning where there has not been much activity of imagination preceding . But everything of this kind seems to ...
Page xliii
... supposing the abstractions of the mind to have a separate and independent " existence . This is the doctrine of the Platonic ideas ' , or " " forms ' , which are understood to impart all that is common " to the particular facts or ...
... supposing the abstractions of the mind to have a separate and independent " existence . This is the doctrine of the Platonic ideas ' , or " " forms ' , which are understood to impart all that is common " to the particular facts or ...
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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.