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Page viii
... understanding of the beginning of them , which is abrupt , and refers , it will be seen , to something as going before , and which I thought it was as well to leave so referring . But I have carefully avoided in the following pages all ...
... understanding of the beginning of them , which is abrupt , and refers , it will be seen , to something as going before , and which I thought it was as well to leave so referring . But I have carefully avoided in the following pages all ...
Page xi
... understand , think , feel them of ourselves and from within , is something to me of an entirely different nature , and leads to entirely different fields of speculation from the physio- psychology which I have been speaking of . I think ...
... understand , think , feel them of ourselves and from within , is something to me of an entirely different nature , and leads to entirely different fields of speculation from the physio- psychology which I have been speaking of . I think ...
Page xviii
... understand things , you must understand their history : or perhaps , we cannot understand things : all that we can understand is their history . For things we might put ' men ' : the study of the history of man is now put before us as ...
... understand things , you must understand their history : or perhaps , we cannot understand things : all that we can understand is their history . For things we might put ' men ' : the study of the history of man is now put before us as ...
Page xix
... understand the fact without understanding them . We want , in mathe- matical metaphor , a sort of integration . But if we ask Mr Mill what a thing is , we shall get , I think , but an uncertain answer : it is something which is , or has ...
... understand the fact without understanding them . We want , in mathe- matical metaphor , a sort of integration . But if we ask Mr Mill what a thing is , we shall get , I think , but an uncertain answer : it is something which is , or has ...
Page xx
... understand what man has done and does , it will mightily add to and deepen our knowledge of what he is : still , as the general fact , the basis of history is the more or less knowledge of the nature of that which it is history of . But ...
... understand what man has done and does , it will mightily add to and deepen our knowledge of what he is : still , as the general fact , the basis of history is the more or less knowledge of the nature of that which it is history of . But ...
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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.