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Institutes of metaphysic: the theory of knowing and being James Frederick Ferrier No preview available |
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absolutely inconceivable absolutely unknowable abstrac affirm agnoiology altogether answer apprehended called character common conceivable conception condition confound consideration constitution contingent contradic contradiction contradictory declares demonstration denied distinct doctrine element epistemology error essential existence explained expression genus gible Hegel Hence idealism inadvertencies inseparable in cognition Institutes intel intellect intelligence kind known laid law of contradiction law of reason laws of thought ledge losophy material things material universe matter per se means ment merely metaphysics mind natural thinking neces necessary laws necessary truth necessity never object of knowledge OBSERVATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS ontology ordinary thinking ourselves oversights particular cognitions philo philoso philosophy Plato popular psychology position possible present primary qualities principles PROP proposition psychology qualities of matter question of philosophy racter remarks sary truths secondary qualities sense sition sophy speculation starting-point suppose tion true truth of reason unintelligible unit or minimum whole words
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Page 237 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 403 - If the reader has got well in hand these two truths, — first, that there can be a knowledge of things only with the addition of a self or subject; and, secondly, that there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge, — he will find himself in possession of a lever powerful enough to break open the innermost secrecies of nature.
Page 402 - Therefore, we can be ignorant only of what can possibly be known ; in other words, there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge.
Page 13 - No man saw the seed planted — no eye noticed the infant sprouts — no mortal hand watered the nursling of the grove — no register was kept of the gradual widening of its girth, or of the growing circumference of its shade — till, the deciduous dialects of surrounding barbarians dying out, the unexpected bole stands forth in all its magnitude, carrying aloft in its foliage the poetry, the history, and the philosophy of a heroic people, and dropping for ever over the whole civilised world the...
Page 91 - The object of knowledge, whatever it may be, is always something more than what is naturally or usually regarded as the object. It always is, and must be, the object with the addition of oneself, — object plus subject, — thing, or thought, mecum. Self is an integral and essential part of every object of cognition.
Page 506 - All absolute existences are contingent except "one; in other words, there is One, but only " one, Absolute Existence which is strictly " necessary ; and that existence is a supreme " and infinite and everlasting Mind in synthesis
Page 188 - PARTICULAR IN COGNITION ARE. The ego (or mind) is known as the element common to all cognitions, — matter is known as the element peculiar to some cognitions : in other words, we know ourselves as the unchangeable, necessary, and universal part of our cognitions, while we know matter, in all its varieties, as a portion of the changeable, contingent, and particular part...
Page 2 - Of these obligations, the latter is the more stringent : it is more proper that philosophy should be reasoned, than that it should be true ; because while truth may perhaps be attainable by man, to reason is certainly his province, and within his power. In a case where two objects have to be overtaken, it is more incumbent on us to compass the one to which our faculties are certainly competent, than the other, to which they are perhaps inadequate.