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Williams and Norgate, 1919

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Página 161 - ... see, we must remember not only that the blind have eyes but that they are descended from ancestors who could see. What nascent presentations of sight are thus involved it would be hard to say ; and the problem of heredity is one that we have for the present left aside. The view here taken is...
Página 126 - OUR knowledge of truths, unlike our knowledge of things, has an opposite, namely error. So far as things are concerned, we may know them or not know them, but there is no positive state of mind which can be described as erroneous knowledge of things, so long, at any rate, as we confine ourselves to knowledge by acquaintance.
Página 9 - Something similar of course occurs in all complete systems of bodily habit and in language habits as well. Habits are formed of going to the box when the arms are full of toys. The child has been taught to deposit them there. When his arms are laden with toys and no box is there, the word habit arises and he calls " box;" it is handed to him and he opens it and deposits the toys therein.
Página 4 - It must not be supposed that the negative fact contains a constituent corresponding to the word 'not'. It contains no more constituents than a positive fact of the correlative positive form. The difference between the two forms is ultimate and irreducible. We will call this characteristic of a form its quality. Thus facts, and forms of facts, have two opposite qualities, positive and negative.
Página 15 - Many analytic psychologists — Meinong, for example — distinguish three elements in a presentation, namely, the act (or subject), the content, and the object. Realists such as Dr. Moore and myself have been in the habit of rejecting the content, while retaining the act and the object.
Página 1 - On the other hand, later sections contain views which I have not hitherto advocated, resulting chiefly from an attempt to define what constitutes " meaning " and to dispense with the "subject " except as a logical construction.
Página 159 - ... itself is not directly known to us. In such a case, we say that our knowledge of the object is knowledge by description. All our knowledge, both knowledge of things and knowledge of truths, rests upon acquaintance as its foundation.
Página 77 - Rashdall contends, it is meaningless to speak of one consciousness as ' included in another,' or to speak of ' a Mind which includes all minds ', and of man as, in that sense, ' a part of God '. Even those who, like Mr.
Página 23 - The sense that anything we think of is unreal can only come, then, when that thing is contradicted by some other thing of which we think. Any object which remains uncontradicted is ipso facto believed and posited as absolute reality.
Página 9 - If you try to persuade an ordinary uneducated person that she cannot call up a visual picture of a friend sitting in a chair, but can only use words describing what such an occurrence would be like, she will conclude that you are mad.

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