Metaphysic. (System of phil., 2). |
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able according action activity actual admit already appear applied arise assume attempt become belong body cause CHAPTER cloth combination complete conceive conception connected connexion consciousness consequence consist continue course definite depend determined direction distance distinguished doubt effect elements equally essence existence experience explain expression extension fact feeling follow force further give given hand idea impossible impressions independent infinite inner kind less limits matter means mechanical merely metaphysical mode motion nature necessary never object observation occurrence once operation original ourselves particular pass perception physical position possible present principle produce qualities question reality reason regard relation remains rest result seems sensation sense simple single soul space speak succession supposed take place theory things thought tion true unity universal various whole
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Page 423 - Any comparison of two ideas, which ends by our finding their contents like or unlike, presupposes the absolutely indivisible unity of that which compares them...
Page 423 - I should maintain, on the contrary, that such a mode of setting out involves a wilful departure from that which is actually given in experience. A mere sensation without a subject is nowhere to be met with as a fact. It is impossible to speak of a bare movement without thinking of the mass whose movement it is ; and it is just as impossible to conceive a sensation existing without the accompanying idea of that which has it, — or, rather, of that which feels it ; for this also is included in the...
Page 432 - this general idealistic conviction; that every created thing will continue, if and so long as its continuance belongs to the meaning of the world; that everything will pass away which had its authorised place only in a transitory phase of the world's course. That this principle admits of no further application in human hands hardly needs to be mentioned. We certainly do not know the merits which may give to one existence a claim to eternity, nor the defects which deny it to others 1 .
Page 430 - so far as and so long as the soul knows itself as this identical subject, it is, and is named, simply for that reason, substance. The attempt to find its capacity of thus knowing itself in the numerical unity of another underlying substance is not a process of reasoning which merely fails to reach an admissible aim ; it has no aim at all. That which is not only conceived by others as unity in multiplicity, but knows and makes...