First Principles of a New System of PhilosophyD. Appleton, 1873 - 508 |
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... consciousness is unquestionable ; and if this state of consciousness is not a conception , properly so called , what is it ? The answer seems to be this : -We have learnt by indirect methods that the Earth is a sphere ; we have formed ...
... consciousness is unquestionable ; and if this state of consciousness is not a conception , properly so called , what is it ? The answer seems to be this : -We have learnt by indirect methods that the Earth is a sphere ; we have formed ...
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... consciousness is a still more inadequate representative of the reality . Yet more remote is the likeness of the thought to the thing , if reference be made to Europeans or to human beings . And when we come to propositions concerning ...
... consciousness is a still more inadequate representative of the reality . Yet more remote is the likeness of the thought to the thing , if reference be made to Europeans or to human beings . And when we come to propositions concerning ...
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... consciousness so nearly at the same time as to seem all present together ; that as the objects conceived become larger and more complex , some of the attributes first thought of fade from consciousness before the rest have been ...
... consciousness so nearly at the same time as to seem all present together ; that as the objects conceived become larger and more complex , some of the attributes first thought of fade from consciousness before the rest have been ...
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... consciousness impressions of sounds , of colours , of tastes , and of those various attributes which we ascribe to bodies ; we are compelled to regard them as the effects of some cause . We may stop short in the belief that this cause ...
... consciousness impressions of sounds , of colours , of tastes , and of those various attributes which we ascribe to bodies ; we are compelled to regard them as the effects of some cause . We may stop short in the belief that this cause ...
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... conscious being . But consciousness again is only conceivable as a relation . There must be a conscious subject , and an object of which he is conscious . The subject is a subject to the object ; the object is an object to the sub- ject ...
... conscious being . But consciousness again is only conceivable as a relation . There must be a conscious subject , and an object of which he is conscious . The subject is a subject to the object ; the object is an object to the sub- ject ...
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Strona 123 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Strona 92 - We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.* 2.
Strona 75 - How, indeed, it could ever be doubted that thought is only of the conditioned, may well be deemed a matter of the profoundest admiration. Thought cannot transcend consciousness; consciousness is only possible under the antithesis of a subject and object of thought, known only in correlation, and mutually limiting each other...
Strona 67 - ... unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all that comes within the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience.
Strona 556 - The interpretation of all phenomena in terms of matter, motion, and force is nothing more than the reduction of our complex symbols of thought to the simplest symbols; and when the equation has been brought to its lowest terms the symbols remain symbols still.
Strona 75 - For, as (he greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized.
Strona 396 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Strona 123 - Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself — that his opinion rightly forms part of this agency — is a unit of force, constituting, with other such units, the general power which works out social changes ; and he will...
Strona 39 - ... this apparent contradiction by introducing the idea of succession in time. The absolute exists first by itself, and afterwards becomes a cause. But here we are checked by the third conception, that of the infinite. How can the infinite become that which it was not from the first? If causation is a possible mode of existence, that which exists without causing is not infinite; that which becomes a cause has passed beyond its former limits.
Strona 88 - To say that we cannot know the Absolute, is, by implication, to affirm that there is an Absolute. In the very denial of our power to learn what the Absolute is, there lies hidden the assumption that it is ; and the making of this assumption proves that the Absolute has been present to the mind, not as a nothing, but as a something.