Essays in Common Sense PhilosophyHeadley Bros., 1919 - 252 páginas |
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... Realism has perhaps in its anxiety to avoid attributing too much to mental con- struction , over - emphasised the passive attitude of the mind in perception . Mind has rightly been regarded as directly in touch with the given Reality ...
... Realism has perhaps in its anxiety to avoid attributing too much to mental con- struction , over - emphasised the passive attitude of the mind in perception . Mind has rightly been regarded as directly in touch with the given Reality ...
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... Realism has proved beyond the present writer . Here we have a statement which is tantamount to an assertion that all the appearances a thing can possibly have , possess an equal degree of reality ; that the shape of a penny , for ...
... Realism has proved beyond the present writer . Here we have a statement which is tantamount to an assertion that all the appearances a thing can possibly have , possess an equal degree of reality ; that the shape of a penny , for ...
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... Realism in accounting for error become most relevant . If everything we perceive is equally real , it can- not be said that we perceive wrongly . To Mr. Russell a wrong perception , or what is commonly known as an " illusion , " means ...
... Realism in accounting for error become most relevant . If everything we perceive is equally real , it can- not be said that we perceive wrongly . To Mr. Russell a wrong perception , or what is commonly known as an " illusion , " means ...
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... Realism ; I mean , the difficulty of accounting for error . According to the above view , the mind does not create ideas of facts for itself : its function is to apprehend facts existing independently of it . If , therefore , everything ...
... Realism ; I mean , the difficulty of accounting for error . According to the above view , the mind does not create ideas of facts for itself : its function is to apprehend facts existing independently of it . If , therefore , everything ...
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... Realism , because one's view of truth , what- ever it may be , follows inevitably from , and is conditioned by , one's theory as to the nature of Reality and of perception . Of the two schools whose views on truth hold the field , it is ...
... Realism , because one's view of truth , what- ever it may be , follows inevitably from , and is conditioned by , one's theory as to the nature of Reality and of perception . Of the two schools whose views on truth hold the field , it is ...
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Absolute admitted appears apprehension argument Aristotle asserts associations assume become believe Berkeley Bosanquet called claims coherence theory common sense concepts conclusion correspondence theory distinct doctrine economic action entities equally essay ethical external fact Form of beauty function G. E. Moore GILBERT CANNAN Glaucon Hegel human ideas important individual infinite regress influence instance intellectual involves isolated kind knowing mind knowledge known logical mathematical matter meaning of truth mental Merry Widow modern Monistic moral nature never Norman Angell organisation particular patches of colour perceive perception perfect physical objects Plato political philosophy possible present Professor proposition purely qualities question Realism Reality reason recognised regarded relations Representationalism Russell seems sensations sense data sensible objects simply social society Space-Time State's Subjective Idealism T. H. Green temperament tender-minded tertium quid theory of Forms theory of truth Theosophy thing thought true judgment ultimate universals whole
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Página 57 - In like manner we know and have a notion of relations between things or ideas — which relations are distinct from the ideas or things related, inasmuch as the latter may be perceived by us without our perceiving the former.
Página 107 - ... drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, he will create many fair and noble thoughts and notions in boundless love of wisdom; until on that shore he grows and waxes strong, and at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science, which is the science of beauty everywhere.
Página 241 - I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain ; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
Página 18 - ... so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind; that their being is to be perceived or known...
Página 241 - Neither is reason among them a point problematical as with us, where men can argue with plausibility on both sides of a question; but strikes you with immediate conviction; as it must needs do where it is not mingled, obscured, or discoloured by passion and interest.
Página 124 - All my life has been at bottom, SEEKING, disbelieving always, dissatisfied always with the thing seen and the thing believed, seeking something in toil, in force, in danger, something whose name and nature I do not clearly understand, something beautiful, worshipful, enduring, mine profoundly and fundamentally, and the utter redemption of myself; I don't know — all I can tell is that it is something I have ever failed to find.
Página 56 - The statement of fact is that the relations between things, conjunctive as well as disjunctive, are just as much matters of direct particular experience, neither more so nor less so, than the things themselves.
Página 56 - The generalized conclusion is that therefore the parts of experience hold together from next to next by relations that are themselves parts of experience.
Página 121 - ... rivers, the sea; trees, and sunsets, stars and moon. Imagine these all combined in the most exquisite proportions, so that no one thing jars against another, but each contributes to increase the beauty of the whole. And then imagine the ugliest world you can possibly conceive. Imagine it simply one heap of filth, containing everything that is most disgusting to us, for whatever reason, and the whole, as far as may be, without one redeeming feature.
Página 198 - The more perfectly each one of them attains its proper object of giving free scope to the capacities of all persons living on a certain range of territory, the easier it is for others to do so; and in proportion as they all do so the danger of conflict disappears.