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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... evidence , committing himself to assertions only tentatively or provi- sionally . He may be preparing foundations , but he cannot let them stand , and hence is not free to build on them . Furthermore , for the very reason that the ...
... evidence , committing himself to assertions only tentatively or provi- sionally . He may be preparing foundations , but he cannot let them stand , and hence is not free to build on them . Furthermore , for the very reason that the ...
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... evidence for the Copernican system is actually more convincing to any one qualified to judge . This was undoubtedly an attempt 1 1 Published in 1632. Cf. H. Höffding : History of Modern Philosophy , trans . by B. E. Meyer , Vol . I , p ...
... evidence for the Copernican system is actually more convincing to any one qualified to judge . This was undoubtedly an attempt 1 1 Published in 1632. Cf. H. Höffding : History of Modern Philosophy , trans . by B. E. Meyer , Vol . I , p ...
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... evidence as he can obtain . The human probability that his conclusions will some day , perhaps tomorrow , be over - ruled by new evi- dence , he properly excludes from his consideration . It is not relevant to his problem . But while ...
... evidence as he can obtain . The human probability that his conclusions will some day , perhaps tomorrow , be over - ruled by new evi- dence , he properly excludes from his consideration . It is not relevant to his problem . But while ...
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... evidence must necessarily be in- complete . Whereas in the field of science theory may advance far beyond belief , accumulating an ever increas- ing surplus of knowledge over practice , here the reverse is the case . For the saving of ...
... evidence must necessarily be in- complete . Whereas in the field of science theory may advance far beyond belief , accumulating an ever increas- ing surplus of knowledge over practice , here the reverse is the case . For the saving of ...
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... evidence . God was a simple inference from effect to cause ; from the existence of nature to the existence of its creator , and from the contrivances of nature to the intel- ligence of its creator . During these two centuries , then ...
... evidence . God was a simple inference from effect to cause ; from the existence of nature to the existence of its creator , and from the contrivances of nature to the intel- ligence of its creator . During these two centuries , then ...
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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 347 - ... 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 129 - ... 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 371 - 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 346 - ... 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 123 - 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 306 - 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 129 - But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me 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 - 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 244 - 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.