Physical Realism: Being an Analytical Philosophy from the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense |
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... follow from it as necessary logical consequences , and this not vaguely and generally , but with all possible precision in time , place , weight , and measure . ' CHAPTER II . IDEALISM AND REALISM . THE problem of 12 PART I. PHYSICAL ...
... follow from it as necessary logical consequences , and this not vaguely and generally , but with all possible precision in time , place , weight , and measure . ' CHAPTER II . IDEALISM AND REALISM . THE problem of 12 PART I. PHYSICAL ...
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... follow the nominalist , and make æthereal undulation the meaning of the name light , ' or the conceptualist , and make it the analysis of the notion , we make too little of it , because the undulation of æther began before , goes on ...
... follow the nominalist , and make æthereal undulation the meaning of the name light , ' or the conceptualist , and make it the analysis of the notion , we make too little of it , because the undulation of æther began before , goes on ...
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... follows that the sensible objects , which are these data , must also be physical . The similar can be inferred only from the similar , therefore the physical can be inferred only from the physical . This conclusion , however , places me ...
... follows that the sensible objects , which are these data , must also be physical . The similar can be inferred only from the similar , therefore the physical can be inferred only from the physical . This conclusion , however , places me ...
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... follows the idealist in thinking too much of the sensible data , and too little of the insensible objects of science . He gives too much weight to consciousness , and too little to science , or rather too much to the ordinary and too ...
... follows the idealist in thinking too much of the sensible data , and too little of the insensible objects of science . He gives too much weight to consciousness , and too little to science , or rather too much to the ordinary and too ...
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... follow the synthesis of knowledge from an unknown beginning , we must make an analysis from the present objects of scientific knowledge to the original data of sense . In a word , our method must be an analysis from science to sense ...
... follow the synthesis of knowledge from an unknown beginning , we must make an analysis from the present objects of scientific knowledge to the original data of sense . In a word , our method must be an analysis from science to sense ...
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æther analogy analytical judgments apprehend Aristotle association of ideas axiom Berkeley Berkeley's body colour conception conclusion confusion consciousness corpuscles Crown 8vo data of sense deduction Descartes distance distinct efferent nerves Essay evidence existence experience extended external object external world facts false Hence Hume Hume's hypothesis idealistic ideas of sensation imperceptible impressions induction infer insensible intuitive realism Kant known laws Leibnitz Locke Locke's logical matter mental philosophy mind motion natural philosophy nerves nervous system object of sense objects of knowledge objects of science operation optic optic nerve particles particular particular judgment perceive perception phænomena physical objects physical realism posteriori premises primary qualities principles produce prove psychical data psychical sensation reality reasoning relations retina says scientific secondary qualities Secondly self-evident sensible data sensible effect sensible heat sensible ideas sensible object similar soul substance supposed syllogism synthetic sense tangible things thinking subject thought tion truth vols whole
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Page 199 - There is, therefore, some cause of these ideas, whereon they depend and which produces and changes them. That this cause cannot be any quality or idea or combination of ideas is clear from the preceding section. It must therefore be a substance; but it has been shown that there is no corporeal or material substance: it remains, therefore, that the cause of ideas is an incorporeal, active substance or spirit.