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... evidence of the fact . The reference to Kant alone is quite conclusive . Kant is not only a representationist - or Kant is not only universally recognised as such , but he is expressly so recognised , expressly so classed , expressly so ...
... evidence of the fact . The reference to Kant alone is quite conclusive . Kant is not only a representationist - or Kant is not only universally recognised as such , but he is expressly so recognised , expressly so classed , expressly so ...
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... evidence in one particular , it could not be adduced as a credible witness at all : -Falsus in uno , falsus in omnibus . ( Disc . p . 88. ) By the very act of refusing any one datum of consciousness , philosophy invalidates the whole ...
... evidence in one particular , it could not be adduced as a credible witness at all : -Falsus in uno , falsus in omnibus . ( Disc . p . 88. ) By the very act of refusing any one datum of consciousness , philosophy invalidates the whole ...
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... evidence of the mistake less unambiguous we should be disposed rather to question our own perspicacity than to tax so subtle an intellect with so gross a blunder . ' ( Disc . p . 57. ) But the evidence is not ambiguous . Hamilton has ...
... evidence of the mistake less unambiguous we should be disposed rather to question our own perspicacity than to tax so subtle an intellect with so gross a blunder . ' ( Disc . p . 57. ) But the evidence is not ambiguous . Hamilton has ...
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... evidence of something beyond themselves . ' Then ( Meta . i . 275 ) he allows himself , accepting ' the facts given in the act of consciousness itself , ' to doubt the facts which consciousness does not at once give , but to the reality ...
... evidence of something beyond themselves . ' Then ( Meta . i . 275 ) he allows himself , accepting ' the facts given in the act of consciousness itself , ' to doubt the facts which consciousness does not at once give , but to the reality ...
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... evidence is contradictory - that its data are repugnant ; -but this no sceptic has ever yet been able to do ! ' No ; let the cosmothetic idealist who reads Hamilton conceive at times what hopes he may , he will find ever in the end that ...
... evidence is contradictory - that its data are repugnant ; -but this no sceptic has ever yet been able to do ! ' No ; let the cosmothetic idealist who reads Hamilton conceive at times what hopes he may , he will find ever in the end that ...
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