Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism, and Realism Together with a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James |
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... question may always be in the foreground of study . I have assumed it to be more important to discover whether certain current views were true or false than to discuss with painstaking nicety the question of their attribution ...
... question may always be in the foreground of study . I have assumed it to be more important to discover whether certain current views were true or false than to discuss with painstaking nicety the question of their attribution ...
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... the task of examining a question on its merits , without reference to ulterior motives . He is permitted a certain play of 8 PRESENT PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCIES The Argument from the Externality of Relations The Conception of Mass.
... the task of examining a question on its merits , without reference to ulterior motives . He is permitted a certain play of 8 PRESENT PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCIES The Argument from the Externality of Relations The Conception of Mass.
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... question on the strength of Scripture texts that are susceptible of a thousand different interpre- tations , for the words of Scripture are not so strictly limited in their significance as the phenomena of nature . ” 2 this defence left ...
... question on the strength of Scripture texts that are susceptible of a thousand different interpre- tations , for the words of Scripture are not so strictly limited in their significance as the phenomena of nature . ” 2 this defence left ...
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... question on the strength of Scripture texts that are susceptible of a thousand different interpre- tations , for the words of Scripture are not so strictly limited in their significance as the phenomena of nature . " But this defence ...
... question on the strength of Scripture texts that are susceptible of a thousand different interpre- tations , for the words of Scripture are not so strictly limited in their significance as the phenomena of nature . " But this defence ...
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... questions . It would seem to follow that society is in special need of avoiding a hasty assimilation of such theory . And yet the words which it ordinarily employs are words which symbolize to mankind their most trusted and cherished ...
... questions . It would seem to follow that society is in special need of avoiding a hasty assimilation of such theory . And yet the words which it ordinarily employs are words which symbolize to mankind their most trusted and cherished ...
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Page 6 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things ' ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 345 - ... accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system; and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins...
Page 127 - ... to imagine trees, for instance, in a park, or books existing in a closet, and nobody by to perceive them. I answer, you may so, there is no difficulty in it; but what is all this, I beseech you, more than framing in your mind certain ideas which you call books and trees, and at the same time omitting to frame the idea of any one that may perceive them?
Page 369 - Disregarding the over-beliefs, and confining ourselves to what is common and generic, we have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which saving experiences come...
Page 344 - ... Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day...
Page 121 - Hyl. To speak the truth, Philonous, I think there are two kinds of objects : — the one perceived immediately, which are likewise called ideas ; the other are real things or external objects, perceived by the mediation of ideas, which are their images and representations. Now, I own ideas do not exist without the mind ; but the latter sort of objects do.
Page 304 - As to the first question, we may observe that what we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations, and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.
Page 367 - Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ; and as the test of belief is willingness to act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
Page 242 - Everything you can think of, however vast or inclusive, has on the pluralistic view a genuinely 'external' environment of some sort or amount. Things are 'with' one another in many ways, but nothing includes everything, or dominates over everything. The word 'and' trails along after every sentence.
Page 134 - But, besides all that endless variety of ideas or objects of knowledge, there is likewise something which knows or perceives them, and exercises divers operations, as willing, imagining, remembering, about them. This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself.