Mind, Band 20Oxford University Press, 1911 A journal of philosophy covering epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mind. |
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A. E. TAYLOR A. W. BENN Absolute abstract action actual admit agnosticism argument Aristotle assertion believe Bergson called causal character conception connexion consciousness criticism definite Descartes determined discussion distinction doctrine dualism elements Epicurus error ethical existence experience explain external F. C. S. SCHILLER fact finite formal function given Hegel Heracleitus human idea ideal implies individual infinite infinity intelligence interest judgment knowledge Leibniz logical Lucretius mathematical matter meaning of truth mental merely metaphysical method mind monads moral motive nature not-self object Objective Idealism perception person phenomena philosophy physical Plato position possible pragmatic predicate present principle problem Prof Protagoras psychical psychology question reality reason recognise reference regard relation result seems self-consciousness sensations sense Socrates soul space suggested suppose theory things thought tion Titchener true unity University word
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Seite 399 - The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.
Seite 118 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time ; who have laboured to divest knowledge of all that was harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional, exclusive; to humanize it, to make it efficient outside the clique of the cultivated and learned, yet still remaining the best knowledge and thought of the time, and a true source, therefore, of sweetness...
Seite 66 - But — a stirring thrills the air Like to sounds of joyance there That the rages Of the ages Shall be cancelled, and deliverance offered from the darts that were, Consciousness the Will informing, till It fashion all things fair!
Seite 156 - ... sufficient to produce the varied motions by which nature carries on things. Wherefore again and again I say bodies must swerve a little ; and yet not more than the least possible; lest we be found to be imagining oblique motions and this the reality should refute. For this we see to be plain and evident, that weights, so far as in them is, cannot travel obliquely, when they fall from above, at least so far as you can perceive ; but that nothing swerves in any case from the straight course, who...
Seite 200 - My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside; and, with all its elements alike, every sphere is opaque to the others which surround it. ... In brief, regarded as an existence which appears in a soul, the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
Seite 548 - universal.' The 'particular' is thus conceived as being just its individual self with no necessary relevance to any other particular. It answers to Descartes' definition of substance: "And when we conceive of substance, we merely conceive an existent thing which requires nothing but itself in order to exist.
Seite 61 - The motive for continuing in the same state or action is only the present satisfaction in it ; the motive to change is always some uneasiness T nothing setting us upon the change of state, or upon any new action, but some uneasiness.
Seite 46 - An old abbe, talking among a party of intimate friends, happened to say, 'A priest has strange experiences; why, ladies, my first penitent was a murderer.' Upon this, the principal nobleman of the neighborhood enters the room. 'Ah, Abbe, here you are; do you know, ladies, I was the abbe's first penitent, and I promise you my confession astonished him!
Seite 316 - Truth, to be true, must be true of something, and this something itself is not truth. This obvious view I endorse, but to ascertain its proper meaning is not easy.
Seite 362 - WE may therefore surmise that time, conceived under the form of a homogeneous medium, is some spurious concept, due to the trespassing of the idea of space upon the field of pure consciousness.