Physical Realism: Being an Analytical Philosophy from the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense |
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... premises to conclusion . The consciousness of reasoning is an immediate apprehension that I am performing that mediate operation . Will is an active operation , the determination to act ; its consciousness an intellectual operation ...
... premises to conclusion . The consciousness of reasoning is an immediate apprehension that I am performing that mediate operation . Will is an active operation , the determination to act ; its consciousness an intellectual operation ...
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... premises ? To answer this question we must consult the logical rules of inference . All inference is by similarity ... premise ; we combine it with a minor premise , asserting that something is one of the class of similar particulars ...
... premises ? To answer this question we must consult the logical rules of inference . All inference is by similarity ... premise ; we combine it with a minor premise , asserting that something is one of the class of similar particulars ...
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... premises , nothing physical in the con- clusion could possibly be inferred . From the similar the similar is inferred ; from the psychical the psychical . But in order to infer the physical we must have some physical data . The ...
... premises , nothing physical in the con- clusion could possibly be inferred . From the similar the similar is inferred ; from the psychical the psychical . But in order to infer the physical we must have some physical data . The ...
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... premises . If reasoning contains , on the Kantian hypo- thesis , a priori apprehensions , these will be part of the data ; but if it adds anything , not in the data but in the conclusion , which has no analogue in the premises ...
... premises . If reasoning contains , on the Kantian hypo- thesis , a priori apprehensions , these will be part of the data ; but if it adds anything , not in the data but in the conclusion , which has no analogue in the premises ...
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... premises . What is inferred need not have been already experi- enced , nor is reasoning confined to merely reproducing the immediate data of the senses . But what is inferred must be similar to what has already been experienced . What ...
... premises . What is inferred need not have been already experi- enced , nor is reasoning confined to merely reproducing the immediate data of the senses . But what is inferred must be similar to what has already been experienced . What ...
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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.