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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 184 - ... which those metaphysicians are now very generally considered to have made out their case, viz. : that all we know of objects is the sensations which they give us, and the order of the occurrence of those sensations. Kant himself, on this point, is as explicit as Berkeley or Locke. However firmly convinced that there exists a universe of "Things in themselves...
Page 227 - That which is a Fact under one aspect, is a Theory under another. The most recondite Theories when firmly established are Facts: the simplest Facts involve something of the nature of Theory.
Page 139 - In the first place, it is not only a logical axiom, but a selfevident truth, that the knowledge of opposites is one. Thus, we cannot know what is tall without knowing what is short, — we know what is virtue only as we know what is vice, — the science of health is but another name for the science of disease.
Page 184 - There is not the slightest reason for believing that what we call the sensible qualities of the object are a type of any thing inherent in itself, or bear any affinity to its own nature. A cause does not, as such, resemble its effects ; an east wind is not like the feeling of cold, nor...
Page 174 - ... supposition.' . . . Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels any complicated mass of evidence ; let him observe, how, for instance, he elicits the true history of any occurrence from the involved statements of one or of many witnesses : he will find that he does not take all the items of evidence into his mind at once, and attempt to weave them together : the human faculties are not...
Page 185 - To this conclusion almost every thinker of note has subscribed. " With the exception," says Sir William Hamilton, " of a few late Absolutist theorisers in Germany, this is, perhaps, the truth of all others most harmoniously re-echoed by every philosopher of every school.
Page 184 - Of things absolutely or in themselves, be they external, be they internal, we know nothing, or know them only as incognisable ; and we become aware of their incomprehensible existence, only as this is indirectly and accidentally revealed to us, through certain qualities related to our faculties of knowledge, and which qualities, again, we cannot think as unconditioned, irrelative, existent in and of themselves.
Page 60 - ... of knowledge. That is, we may either use language thus: we know a thing, a man, etc.; or we may use it thus: we know such and such things about the thing, the man, etc.
Page 132 - Such is the fact of perception revealed in consciousness, and as it determines mankind in general in their equal assurance of the reality of an external world, as of the existence of their own minds. Consciousness declares our knowledge of material qualities to be intuitive.