Physical Realism: Being an Analytical Philosophy from the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense |
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... prove to the mental philosopher that neither all knowable objects nor all sensible data are psychical , but some are physical . I purpose to show that physical objects of science , being objects of knowledge , require physical data of ...
... prove to the mental philosopher that neither all knowable objects nor all sensible data are psychical , but some are physical . I purpose to show that physical objects of science , being objects of knowledge , require physical data of ...
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... proved . There was , as Brandis remarked , an uncon- scious realism in ancient philosophy . It seldom doubted a world beyond the psychical ; the question was rather whether there were not three worlds ; natural individuals ...
... proved . There was , as Brandis remarked , an uncon- scious realism in ancient philosophy . It seldom doubted a world beyond the psychical ; the question was rather whether there were not three worlds ; natural individuals ...
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... proved . Besides the induction of causation , we may either reason synthetically from cause to effect , or analytically from effect to cause . But the latter is the more usual method , because man knows so much more about facts than ...
... proved . Besides the induction of causation , we may either reason synthetically from cause to effect , or analytically from effect to cause . But the latter is the more usual method , because man knows so much more about facts than ...
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... proved by its power of explaining all the facts of light , and by the elimination of the hypothesis of emission , which explains some , but not all the facts . I propose to apply these rules to the various hypotheses of sensible data ...
... proved by its power of explaining all the facts of light , and by the elimination of the hypothesis of emission , which explains some , but not all the facts . I propose to apply these rules to the various hypotheses of sensible data ...
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... proved that external things affect our senses by the causation of motion . To begin with motion before it affects the senses ; either a given external thing may itself move from a distance , until it comes into contact with a sensitive ...
... proved that external things affect our senses by the causation of motion . To begin with motion before it affects the senses ; either a given external thing may itself move from a distance , until it comes into contact with a sensitive ...
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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.